Primula verisL.

Cowslip

WFO wfo-0000482741 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Primula veris, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205242454
Primula veris, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203322545
Primula veris, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. c Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203415193
Primula veris, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203314688
Primula veris, photographed by Cilla Moerman
fig. e Cilla Moerman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201836386
Primula veris, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. f Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201867591
Primula veris, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. g Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201847771
Primula veris, photographed by Cilla Moerman
fig. h Cilla Moerman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201836432

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Flowering n = 5,657 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 5,657 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 51 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.

  • Primula brandisii Wiesb.
  • Primula canescens Opiz
  • Primula columnae Ten.
  • Primula cordifolia Schur
  • Primula cordifolia Kit.
  • Primula coronaria Salisb.
  • Primula discolor Schur
  • Primula elatior subsp. canescens (Opiz) P.Fourn.
  • Primula hampeana Wallr.
  • Primula inflata Lehm.
  • Primula inflata subsp. macrocalyx (Bunge) O.Schwarz
  • Primula justinii Sennen & Elias
  • Primula lasiopetala Wallr.
  • Primula macrocalyx Bunge
  • Primula officinalis (L.) Hill
  • Primula officinalis f. apiculata Brenner
  • Primula officinalis f. attenuata Brenner
  • Primula officinalis f. canescens Opiz
  • Primula officinalis f. canescens Opiz
  • Primula officinalis f. intermedia Brenner
  • Primula officinalis f. longicalyx Brenner
  • Primula officinalis subf. cordata Brenner
  • Primula officinalis subf. elliptica Brenner
  • Primula officinalis subf. firma Brenner

and 27 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.