General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 12-18 inches
Plant Spread: 8-12 inches
Leaves: Evergreen
Semi-evergreen
Fruiting Time: Summer
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Purple
Red
White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Suitable Locations: Bog gardening
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: Seeds germinate best with moisture and alternating warm and cold periods.
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Japanese Primrose
  • Japanese Cowslip
  • Primrose
  • Queen of Primroses

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Location: Maine
Date: 2022-05-27
Location: my garden
Date: 2013-06-22
Wintersown in 2007, this primrose colony self-sowed until vandal
Location: Maine
Location: KALAMA WA
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2018-05-16
Location: Shade Garden Z6a
Date: 2011-05-28
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2014-05
Bronx bot garden
Location: KALAMA WA
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Shade Garden Z6a
Date: 2011-05-23
Location: Shade Garde Z6a
Date: 2010-05-20
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2014-05
Bronx bot garden
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2014-05
Bronx bot garden
Location: Bogie Lake Greenhouse, White Lake, MI
Date: 2010-04-05
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-06-11
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2006-05-15
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Potomac MD
Date: 2019-04-27
Location: Ecological Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth
Date: May
photo by El Grafo
Location: KALAMA WA
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: KALAMA WA
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Shade Garde Z6a
Date: 2010-05-10
Charming blooms on long stems.
Location: Bogie Lake Greenhouse, White Lake, MI
Date: 2010-04-05

Stan Shebs [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2006-05-02
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Ecological Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth
Date: May
photo by El Grafo
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