What a delight to find that one of my favourite plants grows commonly in the European hills. In Europe it will grow on acid soils although it is associated only with a limestone belt traversing northern England from Yorkshire to Lancashire in the British Isles.

In Europe Primula farinosa will grow as an alpine on mountains up to 10,000 feet in height. In the habitat photograph below the blue flower growing with pink Primula farinosa is Pinguicula grandiflora (Large-flowered Butterwort).

Primula farinosa Bird's-eye Primrose East of Gèdre, French Pyrenees 8th June 2009 Previous   Next	Primula farinosa Bird's-eye Primrose Val de fain, Engadine, Swiss Alps 6th July 20101 Previous   Next	Primula farinosa Bird's-eye Primrose East of Gèdre, French Pyrenees 8th June 200 Previous   Next
Primula farinosa Bird's-eye Primrose	Primula farinosa Bird's-eye Primrose white petals	Primula farinosa Bird's-eye Primrose habitat

LHS: East of Gèdre, French Pyrenees 8th June 09 RHS: Val de Fain, Swiss Alps, 6th July 2010

Added on November 12th 2011, updated 6th July 2014