Vinca majorL.

greater periwinkle

WFO wfo-0000332784 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vinca major, photographed by Sean Clifford
fig. a Sean Clifford, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205340582
Vinca major, photographed by ianrainbow
fig. b ianrainbow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203044109
Vinca major, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. c Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202292921
Vinca major, photographed by Matthew Vosper
fig. d Matthew Vosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203347226
Vinca major, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203612719
Vinca major, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. f Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203571962
Vinca major, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. g Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203274026
Vinca major, photographed by Anthony
fig. h Anthony, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202369609

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Flowering n = 8,639 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 8,639 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 9 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.

  • Pervinca major (L.) Garsault
  • Vinca balcanica Pénzes
  • Vinca grandiflora Salisb.
  • Vinca major f. variegata (Loudon) P.D.Sell
  • Vinca major var. hirsuta Boiss.
  • Vinca major var. variegata Loudon
  • Vinca obliqua Porta
  • Vinca ovatifolia Stokes.
  • Vinca pubescens d'Urv.

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.