Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 10 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | AUT | EUROPE |
| Bulgaria | BUL | |
| Czechia-Slovakia | CZE | |
| France | FRA | |
| Germany | GER | |
| Italy | ITA | |
| NW. Balkan Pen. | YUG | |
| Poland | POL | |
| Romania | ROM | |
| Switzerland | SWI |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Flowering 330 in flower of 435 examined
Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Primula auricula observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 330 of 435 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 31 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Aretia auriculata (L.) Link
- Auricula hortensis Spach
- Auricula-ursi auricula (L.) Soják
- Auricula-ursi auricula subsp. hungarica (Borbás) Soják
- Primula auricula f. exscapa Widmer
- Primula auricula f. marginata (Stein ex Kolb) Lüdi
- Primula auricula f. nuda (Widmer) Lüdi
- Primula auricula f. serratifolia Rochel ex Pax
- Primula auricula subsp. balbisii (Lehm.) Nyman
- Primula auricula subsp. bauhinii (Beck) Lüdi
- Primula auricula subsp. ciliata (W.D.J.Koch) Lüdi
- Primula auricula subsp. hungarica (Borbás) Soó
- Primula auricula subsp. serratifolia (Rochel ex Pax) Jáv.
- Primula auricula var. albocincta Widmer
- Primula auricula var. balbisii (Lehm.) Beck
- Primula auricula var. bauhinii Beck
- Primula auricula var. ciliata W.D.J.Koch
- Primula auricula var. hungarica (Borbás) Mocsáry
- Primula auricula var. marginata Stein ex Kolb
- Primula auricula var. mollis W.D.J.Koch
- Primula auricula var. nuda Widmer
- Primula auricula var. serratifolia (Rochel ex Pax) Mocsáry
- Primula balbisii Lehm.
- Primula balbisii subsp. hungarica (Borbás) Li Bing Zhang
and 7 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
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