Tulipa tarda

Tulipa tarda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Genus:	Tulipa
Species:	T. tarda
Binomial name
Tulipa tarda Stapf

Tulipa tarda (late tulip, tarda tulip) is a perennial growing from a bulb. It belongs to the section biflores. It has a leathery tunic that is glabrous on the inside.^[1] It has up to seven linear green leaves that can be up to 20 cm long. The stem is between 4 and 20 cm long. The yellow flowers have white tips, anthers and stamen are yellow.^[2] Tulipa tarda is native to central Asia, growing in rocky subalpine meadows in the Tien Shan.^[3] It was confused with Tulipa dasystemon for a long time, and only scientifically described in 1933 by Otto Stapf.^[4]

The plant blooms in late April and early May in the Northern Hemisphere.^[2] The plant was accorded the RHS AGM in 1993.

References

1. Richard Wilford 2008, Tulips. Portland, Timber Press, 158
2. Richard Wilford 2008, Tulips. Portland, Timber Press, 157
3. "Tulipa tarda". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
4. Otto Stapf, Curtis' botanical magazine 9321, 1933

• Anna Pavord 1999, The Tulip, London Bloomsbury, 337

External links

• Media related to Tulipa tarda at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Tulipa tarda at Wikispecies
• "Tulipa tarda". Ornamental Plants from Russia and Adjacent States of the Former Soviet Union. Missouri Botanical Garden – via eFloras.org.
• Pacific Bulb Society
• USDA PLANTS Profile
• Kew Plant List
• IPNI Listing