Tulipa uniflora(L.) Besser ex Baker

WFO wfo-0000746545 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-06 / obs. 197282946
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Роман Артемьев
fig. b Роман Артемьев, CC0 1.0 / obs. 125769612
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. c Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38028018
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. d Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38030301
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38031405
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17687930
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Svyatoslav Knyazev
fig. g Svyatoslav Knyazev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39908578
Tulipa uniflora, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17555130

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Tulipa uniflora is native: Altay, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Tuva, Xinjiang AltayChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaTuvaXinjiang
Native distribution of Tulipa uniflora, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX

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 8 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.

  • Gagea uniflora (L.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Orithyia nutans Trautv.
  • Orithyia uniflora (L.) D.Don
  • Ornithogalum uniflorum L.
  • Tulipa altaica Gebler ex Schult.f.
  • Tulipa mongolica Y.Z.Zhao
  • Tulipa nutans B.Fedtsch.
  • Tulipa stylosa Fisch.

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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