This is related to the Androsaces (and sometimes called Androsace vitaliana), but unlike almost all of that genus of white, pink and red-flowered plants, Vitaliana has bright yellow flowers. They can almost cover the mats or cushions of small rosettes of grey-green leaves. It comes from the Alps and Pyrenees.

Vitaliana primuliflora is not specifically identified as one of the subspecies, so the general description above applies.