Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 8 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AFG | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Tadzhikistan | TZK | |
| Tibet | CHT | |
| Xinjiang | CHX | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| Pakistan | PAK | |
| West Himalaya | WHM |
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 43 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -30.1 °C | -19.6 °C | -12.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 5.8 °C | 8.1 °C | 17.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 600 mm | 2,222 mm | 2,833 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 37 mm | 53 mm | 220 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 43 research-grade observations of Primula macrophylla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 21 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.
- Aleuritia macrophylla (D.Don) Soják
- Aleuritia pulverea (Fed.) Soják
- Primula aitchisonii Pax
- Primula atroviolacea Jacquem. ex Duby
- Primula jaeschkeana Kern.
- Primula laeschkeana A.Kern. ex Kolb.
- Primula macrophylla subsp. aitchisonii (Pax) W.W.Sm. & Forrest
- Primula macrophylla subsp. moorcroftiana (Wall. ex Klatt) W.W.Sm. & Forrest
- Primula macrophylla subsp. pulverea (Fed.) Halda
- Primula macrophylla var. lineariloba (Watt) W.W.Sm. & Forrest
- Primula meeboldii Pax
- Primula moorcroftiana Wall. ex Klatt
- Primula nivalis unranked moorcroftiana (Wall. ex Klatt) Farrer
- Primula nivalis var. macrophylla (D.Don) Pax
- Primula nivalis var. macrophylla (D.Don) Pax & R.Knuth
- Primula nivalis var. moorcroftiana (Wall. ex Klatt) Pax
- Primula pulverea Fed.
- Primula purpurea Royle
- Primula stuartii var. lineariloba G.Watt
- Primula stuartii var. moorcroftiana (Wall. ex Klatt) Watt
- Primula stuartii var. purpurea (Royle) Watt
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.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.