Primula nivalisPall.

WFO wfo-0001105341 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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.

Primula nivalis, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. a Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-15 / obs. 57860572
Primula nivalis, photographed by Vsevolod Rudyi
fig. b Vsevolod Rudyi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29768238
Primula nivalis, photographed by Yehor Yatsiuk
fig. c Yehor Yatsiuk, CC0 1.0 / obs. 77193040
Primula nivalis, photographed by Yehor Yatsiuk
fig. d Yehor Yatsiuk, CC0 1.0 / obs. 77193073
Primula nivalis, photographed by Yehor Yatsiuk
fig. e Yehor Yatsiuk, CC0 1.0 / obs. 77192985

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Primula nivalis is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mongolia, Tuva, Xinjiang AltayBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKamchatkaKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanMongoliaTuvaXinjiang
Native distribution of Primula nivalis, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX

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.

Also published as 16 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 nivalis (Pall.) Soják
  • Aleuritia xanthobasis (Fed.) Soják
  • Primula nivalis subsp. xanthobasis (Fed.) Halda
  • Primula nivalis unranked eximia Farrer
  • Primula nivalis unranked lineariloba Farrer
  • Primula nivalis unranked sinopurpurea Farrer
  • Primula nivalis var. colorata Regel
  • Primula nivalis var. farinosa Schrenk ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Primula nivalis var. subintegerrima Regel
  • Primula nivalis var. turkestanica Schmidt
  • Primula orientalis Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Primula spathulata Royle
  • Primula stuartii Hook.f.
  • Primula turkestanica (J.N.Haage & E.Schmidt) E.A.White
  • Primula xanthobasis Fed.
  • Primula xanthobasis var. efarinosa Malyschev

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.

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.