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the flower so eager it blooms before winter remembers to leave.
means A low-growing plant of the genus Primula, bearing pale yellow (or sometimes pink or white) five-petalled flowers in early spring, common in woods and gardens.
from From the Old French primerose and Medieval Latin prima rosa, literally 'first rose' — though it's no rose at all, just an early bloomer that borrowed the name for being first to the season. English softened the spelling over time, and the 'rose' stuck more by habit than botany.
- name origin
- Latin prima rosa means first rose
- two-faced
- comes in pin and thrum flower forms
- edible
- flowers and leaves are entirely edible
- victorian fan
- Disraeli's favorite, sparked a political society
- evening twin
- evening primrose isn't even related
for instance
evening primrose — oenothera biennis, wildflower native to north america, now naturalized across europe
primrose path — literary phrase from hamlet (1603), representing the seductive route to damnation