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Tulipa sprengeri; photograph (c) R Clarke, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) R Clarke, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2022-06-09

Tulipa sprengeri Baker

Liliaceae · listed by its genus as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Tulipa sprengeri, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedTulipa sprengeri, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedTulipa sprengeri, photograph peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTulipa sprengeri, photograph manuel m. v., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTulipa sprengeri, photograph manuel m. v., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTulipa sprengeri, photograph Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Summary

Tulipa sprengeri, the Sprenger's tulip, is a species of perennial, bulbous plant in the family Liliaceae endemic to Amasya, Turkey. It was long considered extinct in the wild, but was rediscovered in June 2026 by Ercan Eftelioglu after 130 years in a rural area of Amasya, Turkey. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tulipa sprengeri", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Tulipa

Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the Tulipa genus. Their flowers are usually large, showy, and brightly coloured, generally red, orange, pink, yellow, or white. They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals, internally. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tulip", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the genus Tulipa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Tulipa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 1 of the 8 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here.
Extinct inTurkey · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 4 openly licensed records of 8 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; manuel m. v., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Tulipa 51 in the reference

Tulipa agenensis Tulipa agenensis Eyed Tulip Photo: CC BY, Antoine ThivolleTulipa alberti Tulipa alberti Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, ivansemenkovTulipa aleppensis Tulipa aleppensis Liliaceae Photo: CC0, DûrzanTulipa altaica Tulipa altaica Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Maxim Shashkov Tulipa anisophylla Liliaceae Tulipa armena Tulipa armena Armenian Tulip Photo: CC BY-SA, ChaojokerTulipa biflora Tulipa biflora Biflora tulip Photo: CC BY, Jesenia K.Tulipa bifloriformis Tulipa bifloriformis Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Artem Abdukakharov Tulipa carinata Liliaceae Tulipa clusiana Tulipa clusiana Lady tulip Photo: CC0, author not statedTulipa cretica Tulipa cretica Cretan Tulip Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisTulipa dasystemon Tulipa dasystemon Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, kirinzi all 52 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Tulipa brachyanthera. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Liliaceae
Described by
Baker
Native to
not verified
Records
8 georeferenced · 4 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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