Primula alcalina Cholewa & Douglass M.Hend., Brittonia 36(1): 59 (1984).
Section Aleuritia
Link to Flora of North America description
Type specimen: D.M. Henderson & R. Cates 1372 resides at University of Idaho Stillinger Herbarium (specimen ID00157753) and New York Botanical Garden (specimen 329508).
Epithet: Named for the alkaline habitat where it grows.
Distribution: Idaho, Montana.
Similar to Primula incana and sometimes found growing with it, this species is distinguished by having white flowers and leaves not aromatic and becoming efarinose with age. Thought to have been extinct in Montana until relocated in 2002.
