Soldanella

:"Snowbell" redirects here. The distantly related genus "Styrax" is sometimes also called thus."Taxobox
name = "Soldanella"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Soldanella alpina" growing in eastern Austria
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ericales
familia = Primulaceae
genus = "Soldanella"
genus_authority = L.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Soldanella alpina" "Soldanella austriaca" "Soldanella carpatica" "Soldanella dimoniei" "Soldanella hungarica" "Soldanella minima" "Soldanella montana" "Soldanella pindicola" "Soldanella pusilla" "Soldanella villosa"

The genus "Soldanella", commonly known in English as snowbell, includes 10 species in the flowering plant family Primulaceae, native to European mountains, from the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans. They grow in damp pastures and rocky landscapes from 500-3,000 m above sea level, usually in hollows which hold snow long into the summer.

They typically have a basal rosette of simple, orbicular leaves 1-5 cm wide, with the flower stalks arising from the centre of the rosette, each stalk bearing 1-6 white to violet flowers.