Species Tulip, Botanical Tulip, Vvedensky's Tulip

This one is just about indestructible in my dry rock/clay sunny front garden. Mine grow low to the ground, but are so large and bright t...Read Morehat they definitely qualify as 55-mph tulips!

The dwarf form of this Central Asian tulip is highly recommended as a rock garden bulb. It has bright orange-red flowers with a yellow e...Read Moreye, and grey-green wavey-edged prostrate leaves. It has increased each year since we planted it in our rock garden in St John's, Newfoundland (Can zone 5b). The main drawback is that something, earwigs I think, like to eat it - both flowers and leaves.

According to Brian Mathew (The Smaller Bulbs) there is also a less interesting taller form, but it is the dwarf one that is in "the trade". Vvedensky was, I think, a Russian botanical explorer; there are other plants named after him.