primrose

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In wet winters, the valleys beyond town awaken in color as sand verbena, desert sunflower, evening primrose and pincushion gather in brief, luminous blooms across the desert floor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The bright yellow desert gold is currently one of the most prominent flowers on display, alongside brown-eyed primrose, grape soda lupine and desert star.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

At field sites in eastern Washington, the researchers collected scent samples from pale evening primrose flowers.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

Everything from the primrose to the milkweed to the Echinacea purpurea, is allowed to flourish.

From National Geographic • Jul. 20, 2023

It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams