| Family | APOCYNACEAE |
| Genus species | Vinca minor L. trib. Vinceae |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 209 (1753) |
| Native Range | Europe to Caucasus |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Description | leaves shortly petiolate, glabrous, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, obtuse, flowers solitary, pedicellate, calyx glabrous, lobes short, lanceolate, obtuse |
| Size | 10-15cm |
| Color | blue |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | ind |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
| Propagation | seed when ripe division in early spring and fall; layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Pervinca heterophylla Raf. Pervinca minor Garsault Pervinca procumbens Gilib. Pervinca repens Raf. Vinca acutiflora Bertol. ex W.D.J.Koch Vinca ellipticifolia Stokes Vinca humilis Salisb. Vinca intermedia Tausch Vinca minor var. sabinka H.Scholz Vinca minor var. intermedia (Tausch) Nyman |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, BGM Belgium, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, HUN Hungary, NET Netherlands, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (COR Corse, FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (BUL Bulgaria, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, SIC Sicilia, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, KRY Krym, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) |