page_title: Tulipa sprengeri
hierarchical_section_title: Tulipa sprengeri
caption_attribution_description: Beginning to seed itself interestingly around the garden and popping up in unexpected places. A peculiar tulip - completely hardy and perfectly adapted to British gardens - it grows, at Pool Meadow anyway, in the open and among other plants, on the heavy clay as well as the poorer drier soils you'd expect Tulips to do well on. The seed is produced copiously and I've 'helped' it get about pretty indiscriminately. I wonder how long it takes to get from seed to flowering plant?
context_page_description: Tulipa sprengeri, or Sprenger's tulip, is a wild tulip from the Pontic coast of Turkey. It is quite rare and possibly extinct in the wild, but widely cultivated as an ornamental.
  Daniel Hall put it into the Kolpakowskiana group, later in the "solitary species". Wessel Marais placed it in section Tulipa because of its naked filament. Genetically, it seems to belong to the section Eriostemones, even if it does not have a hairy filament, normally seen as a defining characteristic, whereas glabrous filaments are typical of the Tulipa-group. It is diploid. The locus typicus is Amasya.
context_section_description: Tulipa sprengeri, or Sprenger's tulip, is a wild tulip from the Pontic coast of Turkey. It is quite rare and possibly extinct in the wild, but widely cultivated as an ornamental.
  Daniel Hall put it into the Kolpakowskiana group, later in the "solitary species". Wessel Marais placed it in section Tulipa because of its naked filament. Genetically, it seems to belong to the section Eriostemones, even if it does not have a hairy filament, normally seen as a defining characteristic, whereas glabrous filaments are typical of the Tulipa-group. It is diploid. The locus typicus is Amasya.
caption: Sprenger's tulip
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