Primula minimaL.

WFO wfo-0000483729 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Primula minima, photographed by Elias
fig. a Elias, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205718426
Primula minima, photographed by Elias
fig. b Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204943018
Primula minima, photographed by Piotr Lukasik
fig. c Piotr Lukasik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204197443
Primula minima, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. d xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197445625
Primula minima, photographed by Daniel Linzbauer
fig. e Daniel Linzbauer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145227864
Primula minima, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. f xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140427586
Primula minima, photographed by Elias
fig. g Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139495695
Primula minima, photographed by Elias
fig. h Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138401214

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Primula minima is native: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Primula minima, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

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 149 in flower of 173 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Primula minima 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. 149 of 173 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 17 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 minima Link
  • Aretia truncata Link
  • Auricula minima Spach
  • Auricula villosa Spach
  • Auricula-ursi minima (L.) Soják
  • Kablikia minima (L.) Opiz
  • Kablikia truncata (Lehm.) Opiz
  • Primula minima f. alba Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Primula minima f. caulescens Wimm. & Grab.
  • Primula minima f. fimbriata Tausch
  • Primula minima f. subacaulis Wimm. & Grab.
  • Primula minima var. caulescens Wimm. & Grab.
  • Primula minima var. multidentata Sünd.
  • Primula minima var. subacaulis Wimm. & Grab.
  • Primula pseudoforsteri Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Primula sauteri Sch.Bip.
  • Primula truncata Lehm.

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.
  3. 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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