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Henderson's shooting star

Primula hendersonii

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) emily_jackson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

California	13,346
United States	10,862
Canada	4,980
British Columbia	4,977
Washington	2,552
Oregon	1,505
Nevada	96

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Family	primrose family · Primulaceae
Genus	Primroses · Primula

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Henderson's shooting star with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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