Primula vulgarisHuds.

Primrose

WFO wfo-0000482762 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Primula vulgaris, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. a Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 202252810
Primula vulgaris, photographed by Anne Thomson
fig. b Anne Thomson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201524353
Primula vulgaris, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. c Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197928758
Primula vulgaris, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. d Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198700739
Primula vulgaris, photographed by Jerry Lanfear
fig. e Jerry Lanfear, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200303778
Primula vulgaris, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. f Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198081780
Primula vulgaris, photographed by B. Phalan
fig. g B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196082695
Primula vulgaris, photographed by Mathew Robinson
fig. h Mathew Robinson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195410421

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Flowering n = 5,766 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 5,766 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 52 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 abchasia Sosn.
  • Primula acaulis (L.) Hill
  • Primula acaulis (L.) L.
  • Primula acaulis f. parviflora Bolzon
  • Primula acaulis subsp. alpina (Canak & Gajić) Czerep.
  • Primula acaulis subsp. atlantica (Maire & Wilczek) Greuter & Burdet
  • Primula acaulis subsp. balearica (Willk.) Greuter & Burdet
  • Primula acaulis subsp. rubra (Sm.) Greuter & Burdet
  • Primula acaulis subsp. rubra (Sm.) O.Schwarz
  • Primula acaulis subsp. vulgaris (Huds.) O.Schwarz
  • Primula acaulis var. alba Knoche
  • Primula acaulis var. atlantica Maire & Wilczek
  • Primula acaulis var. hypoleuca Halácsy
  • Primula acaulis var. pulchella Heldr.
  • Primula acaulis var. rosea Boiss.
  • Primula acaulis var. rubra Sm.
  • Primula acaulis var. sibthorpii (Hoffmanns.) Pax
  • Primula atropurpurea hort. ex Pax
  • Primula balearica (Willk.) Losinsk.
  • Primula bicolor Raf.
  • Primula breviscapa Clairv.
  • Primula calycantha Retz.
  • Primula grandiflora Lam.
  • Primula grandiflora var. rufa Gray

and 28 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.