Taxon: Primula veris L.

Genus:

Primula

Subgenus:

Primula

Section:

Primula

Family:

Primulaceae

Subfamily:

Primuloideae

Nomen number:

400303

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:142. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

06-Oct-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 28-Feb-2002

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Primula officinalis (L.) Hill

Common names:

cowslip (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
gullviva (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
pervocvet vesennij (Source: F Baltic) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Primula 105. 1993; Primula ed2, 109. 2003)
Human food: vegetable (flowers used for garnish fide Cornucopia)
Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Iran (n.), Turkey (n.e.)
CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

Europe

NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (n.), Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Spain

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Naturalized

Northern America

Canada, United States

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 (Cornucopia)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Laasimer, L. et al., eds. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants. (F Baltic)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Personal Care Products Council International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI)
Richards, J. Primula. 1993 (Primula) 105.
Richards, J. Primula. 2003 (Primula ed2) 109.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1972. Flora europaea. (F Eur) 3:16.

Check other web resources for Primula veris L. :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=400303. Accessed 23 June 2018.