Primula meadia(L.) A.R.Mast & Reveal

eastern shooting star

WFO wfo-0001280208 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Primula meadia, photographed by A.L.
fig. a A.L., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204453050
Primula meadia, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. b Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196437707
Primula meadia, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. c Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193208100
Primula meadia, photographed by Alaina Krakowiak
fig. d Alaina Krakowiak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193217124
Primula meadia, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192566811
Primula meadia, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192563701
Primula meadia, photographed by Mike B
fig. g Mike B, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195581364
Primula meadia, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192565037

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Flowering n = 2,203 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,203 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 43 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.

  • Dodecatheon angustifolium Raf.
  • Dodecatheon brachycarpum Small
  • Dodecatheon californicum A.Murray bis
  • Dodecatheon cordatum Raf.
  • Dodecatheon crenatum Raf.
  • Dodecatheon cuneatum Raf.
  • Dodecatheon ellipticum Raf.
  • Dodecatheon flexuosum Raf.
  • Dodecatheon hugeri Small
  • Dodecatheon integrifolium Michx.
  • Dodecatheon integrifolium var. album Nutt.
  • Dodecatheon longifolium Raf.
  • Dodecatheon lutescens C.Z.Nelson
  • Dodecatheon meadia L.
  • Dodecatheon meadia f. alba J.F.Macbr.
  • Dodecatheon meadia f. meadia
  • Dodecatheon meadia f. pallidum Fassett
  • Dodecatheon meadia f. sedens Fassett
  • Dodecatheon meadia subsp. brachycarpum (Small) R.Knuth
  • Dodecatheon meadia subsp. eumeadia R.Knuth
  • Dodecatheon meadia subsp. hugeri (Small) R.Knuth
  • Dodecatheon meadia var. album Tubergen
  • Dodecatheon meadia var. brachycarpum (Small) Fassett
  • Dodecatheon meadia var. genuinum Fassett

and 19 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.