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Tulipa sylvestris
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Type? of Tulipa pulchella (Fenzl ex Regel) Baker [family LILIACEAE]
Original material of Tulipa quercetorum Klokov et Zoz [family LILIACEAE]
Filed as Tulipa sylvestris L. [family LILIACEAE]
Filed as Tulipa sylvestris L. [family LILIACEAE]
Tulipa sylvestris L. var. pulchella Regel [family LILIACEAE]
Tulipa sylvestris Falk ex Kunth [family LILIACEAE]
Tulipa sylvestris Falk ex Kunth [family LILIACEAE]
Type of Tulipa sylvestris L. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Filed as Tulipa sylvestris [family LILIACEAE]
Original material of Tulipa quercetorum Klokov et Zoz [family LILIACEAE]
Tulipa sylvestris Falk ex Kunth [family LILIACEAE]
Filed as Tulipa sylvestris L. [family LILIACEAE]
Tulipa sylvestris L. [family LILIACEAE]
Type of Tulipa sylvestris L. var. herbettei Sennen [family LILIACEAE]
Syntype of Tulipa tricolor Ledeb. [family LILIACEAE]
Lectotype of Tulipa sylvestris L. [family LILIACEAE]
Syntype of Tulipa grisebachiana Pant. [family LILIACEAE]
Isotype of Tulipa paschalis Sennen [family LILIACEAE]
Lectotype of Tulipa patens Agardh ex Schult.f. [family LILIACEAE]
Filed as Tulipa sylvestris [family LILIACEAE]
Isotype of Tulipa paschalis Sennen [family LILIACEAE]
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Name
Identification
Tulipa sylvestris
L.
[family
LILIACEAE
] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Tulipa sylvestris
L.
[family
LILIACEAE
] Verified by B. Valdés,
1995
Tulipa sylvestris
L.
[family
LILIACEAE
] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Tulipa sylvestris
Tulipa paschalis
Tulipa pulchella
Tulipa alpina
Common name
Wild tulip, Flora of North America Vol. 26
Flora
Entry for Tulipa sylvestris Linnaeus [family LILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 26,
Names
Tulipa sylvestris
Linnaeus
[family
LILIACEAE
], Sp. Pl., 1: 305. 1753
Treatment Author(s)
Gerald B. Straley†
Frederick H. Utech
Information
Plants (10–)30–45 cm; bulbs often stoloniferous, ovoid to obovate, 1.8–4(–5) × 1–2.5 cm; tunics brownish black, papery, apex with rusty, straight hairs adaxially. Leaves 2–3(–4), widely spaced, more or less declinate, channeled; blade dark green, linear to linear-lanceolate, keeled, glabrous; proximal cauline blade 25–35 × 1–1.5(–2) cm. Flowers 1(–2), nodding in bud; tepals 6(–8), golden yellow, midrib abaxially tinged with green; outer tepals narrowly elliptical to subrhombic, 30–40(–65) × 8–15(–25) mm, apex acuminate; inner tepals elliptic-oblanceolate, 30–40(–60) × 15–20(–25) mm, apex shortly acuminate; filaments flat, 8–14 mm, pubescent; anthers orange, 4–9 mm; ovary bright green, 10–12 mm. Capsules 15–30 × 14–16 mm. 2n = 36.
Phenology
late spring
Altitude range
0–200 m;
Distribution
Europen Africanaturalized csw AsiaSiberia.USA Md.USA Mass.USA Pa.
Discussion
The exact native range of Tulipa sylvestris in the Old World is unknown. Stoloniferous, offset droppers account for much of the vegetative spread of this triploid species.
Native/Introduced
introduced;
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