Parry's Primrose
The Rocky Mountains form a rugged, high altitude barrier from New Mexico through Western Canada. Many beautiful and unique habitats in this great mountain range serve a wide variety of wildflowers. Among the summer flowering varieties that favor spring fed meadows and stream banks is the richly colored Parry Primrose (Primula parryi) is featured in the Flowers and Cactus Fine Print Gallery. This beautiful perennial blooms from early to late summer in moist alpine meadows and along shaded stream banks where Saxifraga and columbine may also be found.

Parry's Primrose may be seen in many high areas of the Rocky Mountains. Rock Mountain National Park and Mount Evans near Denver, Colorado or in Grand Teton or Yellowstone National Parks, the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains of Utah, and into Glacier National Park, Montana.  My Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Screen Saver CD-ROM features Parry's Primrose along with many other beautiful mountain wildflowers.  You may also enjoy the relaxing presentations showing many wildflower habitats in my Mountains and Canyons Screen Saver, Beautiful Waterfalls Screen Saver, and National Parks Screen Saver.