Browse Items (18 total)

native to the Netherlands, native to Belgium before going extinct in 1899, grows in grasslands in damp soils, river meadows

origins in Europe and Asia, grows in bogs and wet places, beside streams and rivers

tulip likely originated in Persia, and was first brought to the Netherlands in 1594 for the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden; the Tulip Breaking Virus caused the distinctive stripes—making those bulbs particularly rare—although the flowers died after only…

originated in the Caucuses, traveled west through Greece and Rome; mentioned in Pliny's Natural History