The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Tulipa suaveolens
Tulipa suaveolens, also called van Thol or Schrenck's tulip, is a bulbous perennial from the Eurasian steppe and the probable wild ancestor of the garden tulip. Grow it from bulbs in full sun with well-drained soil and a dry summer rest.
Tulipa suaveolens, synonym Tulipa schrenkii, the van Thol tulip or Schrenck's tulip, is a bulbous herbaceous perennial of species of tulip (Tulipa) in the family Liliaceae. It belongs to section Tulipa. It is the probable wild ancestor of the garden tulip (Tulipa gesneriana).
Tulipa suaveolens inhabits the Eurasian steppe: the southern and eastern Ukraine, Crimea, the European part of Russia, especially on the lower Don, around the Sea of Azov, and major part of Ciscaucasia (in south until North-Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and in the former Chechen-Ingush region, Terek, northern Dagestan), in the south-east of Voronezh Oblast, major part of Volgograd Oblast and Saratov Oblast, southern Samara Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, western and northern Kazakhstan, and the lowlands of western Siberia, Central Asia and China. It also occurs locally in western Iran and Azerbaijan.
Eyed Tulip · Albanian Tulip · Tulipa alberti · Tulipa aleppensis · Tulipa altaica · Armenian Tulip · Biflora Tulip · Tulipa bifloriformis · Lady tulip · Cretan Tulip · Cyprus tulip · Tulipa dasystemon
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tulipa suaveolens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
