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Subalpine Shooting Star

Primula subalpina

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

United States2
Nevada2

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

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Familyprimrose family · Primulaceae
GenusPrimroses · Primula

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Subalpine Shooting Star with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.