Oxlip
Primula elatior (L.) Hill
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Primulaceae
Also called True oxlip
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension part; RHS full, part
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–12 in; RHS 0.1–0.5 m
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–12 in; RHS 0.1–0.5 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -27.2 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -34.4 °C; RHS -20 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Slanke sleutelbloem, slanke sleutelbloem
- German
- Wald-Schlüsselblume, Gewöhnliche Schlüsselblume, Wald-Primel
- Polish
- Pierwiosnek wyniosły, pierwiosnek wyniosły, pierwiosnka wyniosła
- French
- Primevère élevée, Coucou des bois, Primevere elevee
- Russian
- Первоцвет высокий
- Finnish
- Etelänkevätesikko, lehtoesikko
- Czech
- prvosenka vyšší
- Danish
- Fladkravet kodriver, Fladkravet Kodriver
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hagenøkleblom, Hagenøkleblom
- Lithuanian
- Aukštoji raktažolė
- Slovak
- prvosienka vyššia
- Swedish
- lundviva, Lundviva
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Primula elatior (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.