Primula utahensis (N.H.Holmgren) A.R.Mast & Reveal, Brittonia 59(1): 82. 2007. (PDF)
Section Dodecatheon
Link to Flora of North America description (as Dodecatheon)
Type specimen: N.H.Holmgren & P.K.Holmgren 8412 resides at NY (specimen 00259364) and BRY (specimen BRYV0000667).
Dodecatheon utahense (N.H.Holmgren) (syn): Reveal, Sida 22(2): 864. 2006.
Dodecatheon dentatum Hook. var. utahense (syn): N.H.Holmgren, Brittonia 46(2): 91. 1994.
Dodecatheon dentatum Hook. subsp. utahense (N.H.Holmgren) (syn): Kartesz, Synth. N. Amer. Fl., Nomencl. Innov.: no. 8. 1999.
Epithet: Named for the State of Utah.
Distribution: Utah, USA.
Endemic to the Big Cottonwood Canyon area of Utah and found hanging from steep limestone canyon walls or in rock cracks in shade. Flowers pale lavender to pink with a white or yellow tube and a thin, wavy reddish ring, connective smooth and dark purple. Leaves oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, glabrous, abruptly tapering to a slender petiole Can have a narrow caudex with trailing leaves and roots.
