SPECIES, CULTIVARS AND NATURALLY OCCURRING HYBRIDS – ALPHABETICAL
Names which are valid according to Richards (2003) are given in bold type. Where possible, defunct names have been given their valid synonym. Naturally occurring hybrids with valid names are also in bold type. Where Richards (2003) was silent, use was made of Halda (1992) and Richards (1993).
Author’s name given in [square brackets]; comments on the article in (curved brackets).
P. acaulis – See P. vulgaris
P. advena
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] (Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:14
P. aemula – See P. szechuanica
P. aerinantha
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:3
P. agleniana
$ var. thearosa (the tea rose primula)
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:1:6-7, 14
$ “The Magic of Primula” [F. Kingdon-Ward] (The ups and downs of plant hunting – Very interesting) 11:1:8-9 (PP – of Kingdon-Ward, a facsimile of a short letter, and P. florindae)
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] (Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:3
$ var. atrocrocea
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] (Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:3
$ var. alba
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:3
P. ajanensis – See P. modesta
P. algida
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:3
P. aliciae
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:4
P. allionii
$ “P. allionii” [Walter C. Blasdale] 3:2:17-19 (P)
$ “More about Primula Allionii” [Clara W. Regan] 4:2:26 Montana – Butte
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 4:4:49-53
$ “Illustrations and Descriptions from Publications on the Primula” 10:2:6-10 (P – See page 12 of same issue)
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:4
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:83
P. allionii ‘Loiseleur’
$ photo [?] (Accompanies article on p. 7 of same issue) 10:2:12
P. alpicola (P. microdonta var. alpicola)
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ Untitled [?] 11:1:18
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:4, 18
P. alta subsp. limnoica – See P. denticulata subsp. sinodenticulata
P. americana – See P. incana
P. amethystina
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:3
$ Subsp. brevifolia
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:3-4
P. amoena – See P. elatior subsp. meyeri
P. angustifolia
$ “A Few Companionate Plantings For Primulas” [J. G. Bacher] 2:4:57 (P)
$ “An Herbarium Is Begun” [?] 2:3:43, 45
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 5:1:1-7
$ “North American Primulas” [Lt. Commander C. R. Worth] 2:2:17-22
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:5
$ var. brodheadae
$ “Parryi Primulas in Scotland” [Kenneth Charles Corsar] (Cultural notes) 11:1:6-7
$ “North American Primulas” [Lt. Commander C. R. Worth] 2:2:17-22
$ “A Disappointing Hunt for Primulas” [Dr. C. R. Worth] 5:1:13-14
$ “Collecting Primulas in the Northwest” [Dr. R. M. Bond] (Plant-hunting in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada) 8:4:59-61
P. anisodora – See P. wilsonii var. anisodora
P. x anisodoxa (P. anisodora x helodoxa = P. wilsonii var. anisodora x P. prolifera)
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
P. apennina – See P. pedemontana subsp. apennina
P. apoclita
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:6
P. atrodentata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:6
P. aurantiaca
$ “Sketchbook” [Florence Levy] 3:1:15-16
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:6
$ “In a Scottish Rock Garden” [A. B. Duguid] 13:1:4
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:83
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P. aureata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:6
$ “In a Scottish Rock Garden” [A. B. Duguid] 13:1:4
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:83
P. auricula
$ “Extracts from the Minutes of the Fall Meetings” [Carl Maskey] 2:3:46-47
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 4:4:49-53
$ “Wild Swiss Primula” [Aymon Correvon] 11:1:1-3
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:6
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
P. auriculata (P. glacialis)
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:6
P. baileyana
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:7
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
P. balearica – See P. vulgaris subsp. balearica
P. bathangensis
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:7
P. beesiana – See P. bulleyana subsp. beesiana
P. beesiana x P. bulleyana
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
P. bella
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
P. bellidifolia
$ “‘Native Collectors’ of Primula” [Roland E. Cooper] (Discusses the role of native Indians, Afghans, etc. in discovering new species) (PP) 13:3:98
$ ssp. hyacinthina
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P page 91)12:3:92
P. x berninae (= P. hirsuta x P. latifolia)
$ “Wild Swiss Primula” [Aymon Correvon] (Note that P. viscosa is now P. latifolia) 11:1:1-3
P. bhutanica
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:7
$ “In a Scottish Rock Garden” [A. B. Duguid] 13:1:4
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
P. blattariformis
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:8
P. boothii
$ “Florists’ Flowers” [D. Bamford] (Brief advice on growing P. edgeworthii, boothii, bracteosa, scapigera, nutans, vialii) 6:3:45-46
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:8
P. borealis
$ “Notes on Native American Primulas” [Mrs. John Karnopp] 10:3:5-6 (D)
P. boreiocalliantha (P. coryana)
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:1:6-7, 14
P. boveana
$ “Primula Verticillata” [Walter C. Blasdale] (History of plant hunting, description, some culture notes) 7:1:1-5 (P) California – Berkeley
P. bracteata (P. pulvinata)
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:1:6-7, 14
P. bracteosa
$ “Florists’ Flowers” [D. Bamford] (Brief advice on growing P. edgeworthii, boothii, bracteosa, scapigera, nutans, vialii) 6:3:45-46
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:9
$ “Notes on the Supplement” [Chester K. Strong] (Comments on the additions and corrections to the Pictorial Dictionary, and discusses the adaptation of wild species to garden conditions) 13:3:91
P. brevicula
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P. glacialis) 12:3:87 and “Errata” [?] 13:3:88
P. brodheadae Jones – See P. angustifolia var. brodheadae
P. bullata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:9
P. x bullesiana (Hybrids between subspecies of P. bulleyana, q.v.)
P. bulleyana
$ “Understanding the Asiatics” [Florence Levy] 3:1:8-11
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:9
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
$ subsp. beesiana (P. beesiana)
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:7
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
$ var. leucantha in “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:7
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
P. bulleyana x P. pulverulenta
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
P. burmanica
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:9
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
P. cachemiriana
$ “The Denticulata-Cachemiriana Merry-Go-Round” [Florence Levy] 6:2:27
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
P. caldaria
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:10, 18
P. calderiana
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:10
$ subsp. strumosa
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P. strumosa) 12:4:138
P. calliantha
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:10
P. capitata
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:10-11
$ subsp. craibeana
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
$ subsp. crispata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
$ subsp. lacteocapitata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
$ subsp. mooreana
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
$ subsp. sphaerocephala
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
P. capitellata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
P. carniolica
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 4:4:49-53
$ photo and informative caption [?] 9:2:30
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:11-12
P. caveana
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:12
P. cawdoriana
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:12
P. cernua
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:11
P. chamaethauma – See P. pulchra
P. chasmophila
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:13
P. chionantha (P. melanops – See Richards, 1993) (P. sinopurpurea)
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] (Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P. melanops) (P) 12:3:104
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P. sinopurpurea) (P) 12:4:136
$ subsp. sinoplantaginea (P. sinoplantaginea)
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P. sinoplantaginea) (P) 12:4:135-136
P. chionogenes
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:14
P. chumbiensis
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] (Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:14
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:84
$ “‘Native Collectors’ of Primula” [Roland E. Cooper] (Gives the name of the native discoverer of P. chumbiensis) (PP) 13:3:102
P. chungensis
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:14
P. chungensis x P. cockburniana
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:85
P. clarkei
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 5:1:1-7
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:14
P. clusiana
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 4:4:49-53
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:14-15
P. cockburniana
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:15
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:85
P. cockburniana x P. pulverulenta
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
P. concholoba
$ “Sketchbook” [?] 8:3:46
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:15
P. conspersa
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:16
P. cortusoides
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P. saxatilis) 12:4:131
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:85
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P. coryana – See P. boreiocalliantha
P. cottia – See P. villosa var. cottia
P. crispata – See P. capitata subsp. crispata
P. cuneifolia
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:16
$ subsp. hakusanensis
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 5:1:1-7
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:16
subsp. saxifragifolia
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:16
P. cusickiana
$ “Primula Cusickiana” [Mrs. A. C. U. Berry] 7:3:37-38 (P)
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 5:1:1-7
$ “North American Primulas” [Lt. Commander C. R. Worth] 2:2:17-22
$ “Collecting Primulas in the Northwest” [Dr. R. M. Bond] (Plant-hunting in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada) 8:4:59-61
$ “Adventure with P. Cusickiana” [Mrs. A. C. U. Berry] (P) 10:4:3-4
$ “Further Notes on Native American Primula” [Mrs. John Karnopp] 10:4:5
$ “Parryi Primulas in Scotland” [Kenneth Charles Corsar] (Cultural notes) 11:1:6-7
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:16-17
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:85
$ subsp. maguirei (P. maguirei)
$ “A Disappointing Hunt for Primulas” [Dr. C. R. Worth] 5:1:13-14
$ “North American Primulas” [Lt. Commander C. R. Worth] 2:2:17-22
$ “Collecting Primulas in the Northwest” [Dr. R. M. Bond] (Plant-hunting in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada) 8:4:59-61
P. cyanantha – See P. watsonii
P. daonensis
$ “Illustrations and Descriptions from Publications on the Primula” (P) 10:2:6-10
$ “Wild Swiss Primula” [Aymon Correvon] 11:1:1-3
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:17-18
P. darialica
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] 5:1:1-7
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:1:18
P. decipiens – See P. magellanica subsp. decipiens
P. decora – See P. hirsuta
P. deflexa
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:18
P. deleiensis – See P. firmipes
P. denticulata (P. alta)
$ “The Denticulata-Cachemiriana Merry-Go-Round” [Florence Levy] 6:2:27
$ photograph 7:4:58
$ subsp. sinodenticulata (P. alta subsp. limnoica) in “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part Three) 5:2:17-21
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:48
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 13:3:85
P. deorum
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:48-49
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:85-86
P. dickieana
$ “Concerning an Amateur’s Debt to the Plant Hunter” [Cicely Crewdson] (Concerns the culture of plants grown from seed collected on various expeditions) 10:3:7-9 (P)
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:2:49-50
P. dictyophylla
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:50
P. didyma – See P. reticulata var. didyma
P. drummondiana
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:50
P. dryadifolia (P. jonarduni)
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 13:3:86
P. dubernardiana
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:2:22-25
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:2:50
P. dumicola
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] 3:1:6-7, 14
P. eburnea
$ Untitled [Jack Drake, quoted] (Seed grown at Inshriach?) 11:1:18
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:2:51
$ “The Story of a Flower” [Roland Cooper] (Documents the discovery of P. eburnea in the eastern Himalaya. The photo caption spells it Primula eburnia) (PP) 13:2:46-49
P. edgeworthii – See P. nana
P. efarinosa
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:2:52
P. elatior
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part 4) 5:4:57-63
$ “Wild Swiss Primula” [Aymon Correvon] 11:1:1-3
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:2:52-54
$ subsp. elatior
$ ‘Bardfield Oxlip’
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:53 and “Errata” [?] 13:3:88
$ “Notes on the Supplement” [Chester K. Strong] (Comments on the additions and corrections to the Pictorial Dictionary, and discusses the adaptation of wild species to garden conditions) 13:3:91-92
$ ‘Normandy Oxlip’
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:53
$ subsp. carpathica (included under subsp. intricata in Richards 110)
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:53
$ subsp. cordifolia
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:53
$ subsp. intricata
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:53
$ subsp. leucophylla (P. leucophylla)
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part 4) 5:4:57-63
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:2:54
$ “Notes on the Supplement” [Chester K. Strong] (Comments on the additions and corrections to the Pictorial Dictionary, and discusses the adaptation of wild species to garden conditions) 13:3:92
$ subsp. lofthousei (P. lofthousei)
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part 4) 5:4:57-63
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:54
$ subsp. meyeri (P. amoena)
$ “Sketchbook” [?] 2:1:13-14
$ “Notes on the Sections of the Genus Primula” [Donald Neil O’Connell] (Part 4) 5:4:57-63
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (P) 12:1:5
$ “In a Scottish Rock Garden” [A. B. Duguid] 13:1:4
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 13:3:83
$ subsp. pallasii
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:54
P. elizabethae
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:54
P. elliptica
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:54
P. ellisiae – See P. rusbyi subsp. ellisiae
P. elongata
$ “Concerning an Amateur’s Debt to the Plant Hunter” [Cicely Crewdson] (Concerns the culture of plants grown from seed collected on various expeditions) 10:3:7-9
$ Letter from Keillour Castle, Scotland [Mary Knox Finley] (Growing conditions of Sections Sikkimensis and Nivales) 11:1:13-14
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:55
P. encyclia – See P. eucyclia
P. erratica
“Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:55-56
P. erythrocarpa
“Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:56
P. eucyclia
$ “Hunting for Primulas with Capt. F. Kingdon Ward” [Caroline Morse Lord] (Given in error as “P. encyclia”, which does not exist) 3:2:22-25
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:56
P. exigua
$ “Pictorial Dictionary” [?] 12:2:56
P. eximia (P. tschuktschorum)
$ “Primulas on Kiska” [Sgt. Edwin L. Bechtol] (Primulas observed while fighting in the Aleutian Islands – Variety unidentified, but Editor supposed P. eximia) 1:4:121
$ “Cooperative Supplement to the Pictorial Dictionary” [?] (Old identification as P. tschuktschorum var. arctica) 13:3:87