Primula Veris - Seeing Heaven in Wild Flowers - Part II

This Primula Veris is commonly found growing wild in the meadows or road side. While waiting for the pooch doing his run one day, I pulled out a few plants that was growing wild in the field close to the woodland garden and planted them near the walkway entrance which receive 3 hours of sun in late afternoon. I wasn't sure if this primula would take off but being a shade loving plant, they immediately felt at home in their new position. They are so easy to grow, requires zero maintenance, and I only see them in spring when suddenly they bloom their heads off.

Growing up with an english mother, she call this flower cowslip, but living in a german speaking country, this flower is called schlussel blume, directly translated meaning key flower because they are the key to spring. In some parts of Europe, it is also known as Himmel schlussel, meaning key to heaven.

In herbal medicine, this flower is used to make tea which can be used as a sedative, or to make cowslip wine. I've never tried them.

Primula Veris belong to the family of primroses, but primroses have only one flower per stalk, while primula veris is a polyanthus because it has many flowers per stalk. There are also primula vulgaris and primula elatior.
Life is not a bed of roses: Primula Eliator Brownred
All of them are closely related to the cowslip.