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| 1976 - 1980, Teesdale | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| Grows up to 6 inches high in limestone areas mainly in and around Cumbria. |
| 1976 - 1980, Teesdale | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| A cluster of lilac-pink flowers atop glaucous-green stems with short downy hair. |
| 1976 - 1980, Teesdale | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| Five heart-shaped petals almost as flat as a plate. They look almost perfect, blemish-free. |
| 22nd June 2009, Haweswater, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Several flower stalks emerge from the same point. The flower has a long tubular section coloured a deep custard-yellow. The moniker Bird's-eye comes from not the deep-yellow colour of the centre, but the likeness it has to a bird's eye. |
| 22nd June 2009, Haweswater, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaf-like bracts surround the point where flower stems emerge. |
| 22nd June 2009, Haweswater, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| A deep yellow ring near the centre helps identification |
| 22nd June 2009, Haweswater, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| The very centre houses a deep well containing five stamens with anthers bearing cream-coloured pollen. |
| 22nd June 2009, Haweswater, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| The only leaves are in the basal rosette which have rounded ends and shallow teeth. |
| 9th July 2008, Hawes Water, Gait Barrows, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves shaped like shoe-horns. |
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Some similarities to : Scottish Primrose but Scottish Primrose is much shorter and has much smaller flowers than does Birdseye Primrose. Birdseye Primrose has the most perfect-looking lilac-pink flowers with a yellow central 'eye', and look almost as if they were made of plastic. They have five petals with pronounced nicks in the middle of the ends, and are mostly planar, presenting a flat aspect. There are several flowers on the end of a slightly woolly downy upright stalk about 8 inches long. The stalk single arises from a basal rosette of long spoon-shaped sheeny leaves, that have irregular but small teeth along the edge. It grows in alkaline limestone areas in dampish places where the grass is fairly short. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |

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