Tulipa suaveolensRoth

WFO wfo-0000746747 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 196462984
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196463088
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196458928
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196462706
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196338521
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Эльмира
fig. f Эльмира, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195474554
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Эльмира
fig. g Эльмира, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195474532
Tulipa suaveolens, photographed by Эльмира
fig. h Эльмира, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195228936

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Tulipa suaveolens is native: Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Krym KazakhstanNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusKrym
Native distribution of Tulipa suaveolens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Kazakhstan KAZ ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Krym KRY EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tulipa gesneriana subsp. schrenkii (Regel) Nyman
  • Tulipa gesneriana var. acutiflora Pacz.
  • Tulipa hortulanorum Wender.
  • Tulipa monticola E.Wulff
  • Tulipa odoratissima Vis.
  • Tulipa oxypetala Steven
  • Tulipa schrenkii Regel
  • Tulipa splendens Delip.
  • Tulipa suaveolens var. bicolor Regel
  • Tulipa suaveolens var. pluriflora Regel
  • Tulipa turcarum Levier
  • Tulipa volgensis M.Bieb. ex Eichw.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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