Oxlip Flower. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience enabling things like. Height 15 a.
 
        For this reason they were once thought to be a cross between the two see fact below. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience enabling things like. Cowslip flowers however are a slightly are deeper shade of yellow whilst the primroses only has one flower per stalk.
Primula elatior the oxlip or true oxlip is a species of flowering plant in the family primulaceae native to nutrient poor and calcium rich damp woods and meadows throughout europe with northern borders in denmark and southern parts of sweden eastwards to the altai mountains and on the kola peninsula in russia.
The leaves are oval in shape with a rounded end but do not taper. Oxlip is a small perennial plant of open woodland. Height 15 a. For this reason they were once thought to be a cross between the two see fact below.