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Liliaceae
Wild tulip
Tulipa sylvestris
Also known as Candy tulip, Tulipa sylvestris, Liriopogon sylvestre, Lady tulip
Native Plants · Bulb · Spring Flowering · Naturalizing · Species Tulip · Yellow Flowers · Fragrant · Meadow · Woodland Garden · Perennial Bulb · Wildlife Garden
Wild tulip is a delicate, naturalizing species tulip that produces elegant yellow flowers with a sweet fragrance in mid-spring, spreading gradually through bulb offsets in suitable conditions. Plant bulbs in autumn in well-drained soil in a sunny or partly shaded spot such as a meadow, orchard, or woodland edge. Unlike hybrid tulips it can be left in the ground year after year and will slowly naturalize into charming colonies.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately to keep soil just moist during spring growth; allow bulbs to dry out completely during summer dormancy · Every 7-10 days during active growth; reduce significantly after foliage dies back
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Spacing
- 4 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Flowers
- No
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Illinois, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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