Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 29 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Altay | ALT | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Buryatiya | BRY | |
| China North-Central | CHN | |
| China South-Central | CHC | |
| Chita | CTA | |
| Inner Mongolia | CHI | |
| Irkutsk | IRK | |
| Kamchatka | KAM | |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Khabarovsk | KHA | |
| Krasnoyarsk | KRA | |
| Magadan | MAG | |
| Mongolia | MON | |
| Qinghai | CHQ | |
| Tuva | TVA | |
| West Siberia | WSB | |
| Xinjiang | CHX | |
| Yakutiya | YAK | |
| Finland | FIN | EUROPE |
| North European Russia | RUN | |
| Northwest European Russia | RUW | |
| Norway | NOR | |
| Sweden | SWE | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| Pakistan | PAK | |
| West Himalaya | WHM | |
| Alaska | ASK | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| Yukon | YUK |
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 343 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -33.3 °C | -25.6 °C | -17.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 15.2 °C | 21.1 °C | 24.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 214 mm | 387 mm | 805 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 7 mm | 21 mm | 91 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 343 research-grade observations of Primula nutans 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 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.
- Aleuritia nutans (Georgi) Soják
- Aleuritia nutans subsp. finmarchica (Jacq.) Soják
- Primula finmarchica Wulfen
- Primula finno-marchica Georgi
- Primula integrifolia Oeder
- Primula intermedia Ledeb.
- Primula intrusa Rchb.
- Primula norwegica Retz.
- Primula nutans subsp. finmarchica (Wulfen) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Primula rotundifolia Pall.
- Primula sibirica Wulfen
- Primula sibirica Jacq.
- Primula sibirica var. arctica Pax
- Primula sibirica var. brevicalyx Trautv.
- Primula sibirica var. integerrima Hook.
- Primula sibirica var. integrifolia Pax
- Primula sibirica var. kashmiriana Hook.f.
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.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.