Liliaceae
Wild tulip
Tulipa sylvestris
- Family
- Liliaceae
- Genus
- Tulipa
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Common names
By language (30)
- Armenian
- Վարդակակաչ անտառային
- arz
- توليبا سيلفستريس
- azb
- سیلوستریس داغلالهسی
- Azerbaijani
- Silvestris dağlaləsi
- Belarusian
- Цюльпан лясны, Гардук
- Bulgarian
- Горско лале
- Catalan
- Tulipe sauvage
- Chinese
- 林生郁金香, 林生鬱金香
- cv
- Вӑрман тюльпанӗ
- Czech
- Tulipán planý
- Danish
- Vild Tulipan, Skov-Tulipan
- Dutch
- Bostulp
- English
- Wild tulip, Tulip, Dutch-lily, Woodland tulip
- Esperanto
- Arbara tulipo
- Estonian
- Metstulp
- Finnish
- Metsätulppaani
- French
- Tulipe sauvage, Tulipe des Bois
- frr
- Wil Tulp
- German
- Wilde Tulpe, Tulipe sauvage, Wald-Tulpe, Waldtulpe, Weinberg-Tulpe
- hsb
- Dźiwja tulpa
- Lithuanian
- Tulipe sauvage
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Villtulipan
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Villtulipan
- Persian
- لاله سیلوستریس, لالهٔ سیلوستریس
- Polish
- Tulipan dziki
- Russian
- Тюльпан лесной, Тюльпан дикий, Тюльпан флорентийский
- Slovak
- Tulipán lesný
- Spanish
- Tulipán silvestre, Tulipan bravo, Tulipan silvestre, Tulipán bravo
- Swedish
- Vildtulpan, Tulipe sauvage, Vild tulpan, Ängstulpan
- Welsh
- Tiwlip gwyllt
Synonyms
- Liriopogon sylvestre (L.) Raf.
- Liriopogon sylvestris Raf.
Flowers
- In flower
- April to May (from 4,979 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: amantedarmanin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Павлик Лисицын, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Bernd Haynold, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marek Argent, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Anne-Marie Anstett, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: chaumolugma, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: MJ Klaver from Midden-Drenthe, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Castillo Miguel, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.