See also Primrose, Primula sp.; Auricula, P. auricula; Cowslip, P. veris; and Polyanthus, Primula × polyantha.
☙ Oxlip
Primula elatior Hill. (1765) WFO LB JCN HNE
=Primula veris var. elatior L. (1753). WFO LB
Period English: oxlip; jagging oxlip. LB
Period French: Formal: primevère élevée f. ('elevated primrose'). LB Colloquial: brayes de coucou ?; LB pain de coucou m. ('cuckoo bread'). LB
Elizabethian English: Field Oxlips (Gerard 1597, 1568). HNE
Stuart English: Arthetiques; Cowslips or Oxlips. (Cotgrave 1611). HNE
Sentiments:
🏶︎ Speak out ▲︎ (1884). CMK
Region:
Native: Continental Europe, excluding Ireland, Portugal, Norway, Finland, and Mediterranean islands, west to Poland, Belarus, Eastern Russia (Pskov Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, and St Petersberg), Ukraine, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan; and Asia Temperate, in Kazakhstan, north following Samara Oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Mari El Republic, Kirov Oblast, Perm Krai, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, islands in the Kara Sea, and following the north coast down the western border of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Buryatia, and the southern border of the Tuva Republic and Altai Republic.WFO
Introduced: Finland and Norway.WFO
Seasonality: Semi-evergreen perennial flowering in early spring.
Period Colours:
🏶︎ [...] flowers of a pale yellow [...] - J.C. Niven, The Garden, 29 January (1876) p.102 Read Here.
Calendar: TBC.
Heraldry: TBC.
Cultural and Religious: TBC.
Cited Verse:
❧ 'I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, / Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.', ◆︎ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c.1595) 2.1.249; HNE
❧ 'Bold oxlips, and / the crown imperial.', ◆︎ William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c.1610) 4.4.125; HNE
❧ 'Oxlips in their cradles growing.', ◆︎ William Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen (c.1614) Intro. song. HNE
Other Verse: TBC.