YELLOW KEYS GROW ONLY IN NATURAL MEADOWLANDS

YELLOW KEYS GROW ONLY IN NATURAL MEADOWLANDS

Our eyes have become accustomed to the color green and we are increasingly seeing other colors – blue, white, yellow – and meadow plants are gradually beginning to bloom.

Along roadsides, in forest areas, and mostly on mounds and hillsides, spring primroses (Primrose in spring). This plant is also called St. Peter's keys, primroses, and primroses.

An inflorescence forms on a tall stem – an umbrella-shaped one, with a green calyx and a yellow corolla – look closely at how beautiful it looks!

If spring primroses grow in a meadow, we should know that this meadow is natural, perennial. It is most often mowed or used for grazing animals, because primroses are indicators of natural habitats of European Community importance.

Another wild species of primrose is also found in Lithuania – the common primrose (Mealy primrose), which is rare and included in the List of Protected Species of Animals, Plants and Fungi. This species is more common in the northern and western parts of Lithuania, and does not occur at all elsewhere, growing in moist, peaty soils.

Primroses are also grown in nurseries, but here there is another - a third - species - common primrose (Common primrose). They come in various colors.

Primrose flowers and leaves are used in folk medicine. They are collected during flowering in April-May, as their leaves are rich in vitamin C. The tea helps to relieve coughs during colds, and helps with various inflammations, insomnia, and headaches.

Nature provides a great opportunity to go out into the meadows, get to know this plant, collect (in moderation, of course) flowers and leaves, and when you return home, drink fragrant yellow marigold tea.

Diana Martinavičiūtė

Diana Martinavičiūtė's photo shows spring primroses on the Šeimyniškėliai (Voruta) hillfort in Anykščiai Regional Park.

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