🐾 lesser periwinkle

Vinca minor · wildlife atlas entry

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Vinca minor (common names lesser periwinkle or dwarf periwinkle ) is a species of flowering plant native to central and southern Europe, from Portugal and France north to the Netherlands and the Baltic States, east to the Caucasus, and also southwestern Asia in Turkey. Other vernacular names used in cultivation include small periwinkle , common periwinkle , and sometimes in the United States, myrtle or creeping myrtle . Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

lesser periwinkle — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Miroslav Marić, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Miroslav Marić · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Vinca minor
Rank	species
Community observations	98,428 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Gentianales › family Apocynaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

lesser periwinkle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Amherst Center, Amherst, MA, 美国
(c) jianingye, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

lesser periwinkle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Seattle
(c) mihirjayadev, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

lesser periwinkle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Clear Springs Ct, Charlottesville, VA, US
(c) Cole Guyton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

lesser periwinkle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-21 · Orchard Hill Residential / Dickinson Hall, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
(c) James Teitgen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

lesser periwinkle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Kirkland
(c) a-l-e-x-a-n-d-e-r, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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