''Primula carniolica'' is a flowering plant in the primrose family known by the common name Carniolan primrose. It is

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Description

It grows to a height of and is typically broad. The stem, base and leaves are clear green, fleshy and lack the coating that can be seen in some other primroses. The flowers are across and a mild red, rose or purple pink in colour. They give away fragrance and have a slight coating of white particles in the throat. The plant flowers between April and May. Its range is limited to an area of approximately in the Slovenian regions of Upper,

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and

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, as well as the

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, including on the

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and in the Iška River gorge. Within its range the plant grows on north-facing wet

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cliffs, ravines and

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s at an altitude of . It has been a protected species in Slovenia since 1922 and it is consequentially forbidden to pick the flowers. ''Primula carniolica'' is rarely cultivated. File:Primula carniolica.jpg File:Primula carniolica PID1756-1.jpg File:Primula carniolica PID1756-6.jpg File:Primula carniolica PID1756-5.jpg File:Kranjski jeglič (Primula carniolica) v Peklu pri Borovnici 1939.jpg

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q1786314 Flora of Slovenia carniolica Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin