Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Greater Periwinkle, Vinca major, Fincín mór
Photographs: Co. Cork

Greater Periwinkle
Vinca major
Fincín mór
Family: Apocynaceae

Flowering: March-July. Evergreen undershrub. Garden escape.

Solitary blue-violet flowers with white at base of petals and hairless calyx teeth. Flowers occasionally purple. The shiny green leaves are broad, lanceolate and stalked, the leaf edges with tiny hairs. A variegated form also occurs. Spreads widely by trailing, rooting stems. Height to 45cm

Hedges, roadsides and waste ground, usually near habitation.

Similar: Lesser Periwinkle, V. minor is prostrate with narrower leaves

Greater Periwinkle, Vinca major, Fincín mór

Greater Periwinkle, Vinca major, Fincín mór
Greater Periwinkle, Vinca major, Fincín mór

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