Vinca minorL.

lesser periwinkle

WFO wfo-0000332792 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vinca minor, photographed by Connor Sites-Bowen
fig. a Connor Sites-Bowen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204922405
Vinca minor, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. b Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203169233
Vinca minor, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. c Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202068555
Vinca minor, photographed by Becca
fig. d Becca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202940615
Vinca minor, photographed by aga_l_
fig. e aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202988258
Vinca minor, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. f Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202749307
Vinca minor, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. g Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203448855
Vinca minor, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. h Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201362782

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Flowering n = 13,493 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 13,493 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 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.

  • Pervinca heterophyla Raf.
  • Pervinca minor Garsault
  • Pervinca procumbens Gilib.
  • Pervinca repens Raf.
  • Vinca acutiflora Bertol. ex W.D.J.Koch
  • Vinca ellipticifolia Stokes.
  • Vinca humilis Salisb.
  • Vinca intermedia Tausch
  • Vinca minor var. intermedia (Tausch) Nyman
  • Vinca minor var. sabinka H.Scholz

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.