Primula villosaWulfen

mountain primroseshaggy-leaved primrose

WFO wfo-0000482771 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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 villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. a Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-04 / obs. 133862327
Primula villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. b Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133607611
Primula villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. c Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133862366
Primula villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. d Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133607653
Primula villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. e Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133862411
Primula villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. f Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133607724
Primula villosa, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. g Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133862462
Primula villosa, photographed by Étienne Léveillé-Bourret
fig. h Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44707081

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Primula villosa is native: Austria, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Switzerland AustriaItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Switzerland
Native distribution of Primula villosa, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Switzerland SWI

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 10 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 villosa (Wulfen) Link
  • Auricula-ursi villosa (Wulfen) Soják
  • Primula commutata Schott
  • Primula infecta (Kress) Landolt
  • Primula irmingardis (Kress) Landolt
  • Primula simsii Sweet
  • Primula villosa f. norica (A.Kern. ex Widmer) Lüdi
  • Primula villosa var. commutata (Schott) Widmer
  • Primula villosa var. norica A.Kern. ex Widmer
  • Primula viscosa subsp. commutata (Schott) Nyman

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.