Tulipa gesneriana (Didier’s tulip)

5/23/2024 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine ID is uncertain

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Liliopsida	Monocots (plants with a single seed leaf); includes the lily family
Subclass	Liliidae	Includes lilies, orchids, and many others
Order	Liliales	Includes lilies, tulips, trilliums, greenbriars, and others
Family	Liliaceae	Lilly family
Genus	Tulipa	Latinized version of the Turkish tulbend, a turban
Species	gesneriana	For Swiss naturalist, physician, bibliographer, and philologist Conrad Gesner (1516-1565)