Primula parryi (Parry’s Primrose)
Primulaceae (Primrose Family)

Alpine, subalpine. Streamsides, wetlands. Summer.

Linnaeus named this genus in 1753.  "Primula" is from the Latin for "early spring".  Asa Gray named the plant "parryi" for Charles Parry, famed 19th century physician and botanist who collected the first specimen of this plant in 1861 in Colorado.