| Scientific Name: | Primula malacoides |
| Common Name: | fairy primrose |
| Family Name: | Primulaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Bedding plant, Container planting, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Elliptic, Oblong, Ovate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, Feb-Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, most ovate-oblong, 5-8(-15)cm long x 3-7(-10)cm wide, pubescence slightly fuzzy, margin crenate-dentate and shallowly lobed or incised; flowers with 5 notched petals, mostly in shades of pink to purple mostly with some yellow on the throat (all white cv. available), 20-30 per panicle. | |