LILIES - RHS Lily Group

G. granulosa Turcz.
Perennial. Among steppe shrubs, edges of light forests. Environs of stanitsa Ust-
Buzulikskaya and stanitsa Nekhaevskaya (Sagalaev, 2000). Meadow-steppe plants.
Seldom. Fl. IV-V.
G. minima (L). Ker-Gawl.
Perennial. Steppe slopes, edges of upland woods and shrubby thickets in steppe
ravines, rarified forests and forest belts. Rather seldom (near khutors Ozhogin and
Shakin, between khutors Krivsky and Pustovsky, near stanitsa Ust-Buzulukskaya and
other places). Edge of wood-woody-steppe plants. Fl. IV-V.
G. podolica Schult. et Schult. fil.
Perennial. On chalk hills, steppe slopes, glades and edges of woods, in rarified forests,
between birch groves, on saline soils, overgrown sand, banks of reservoirs. Very
common. Edge of wood-steppe plants. Fl. IV-V.
G. pusilla Schult. & Schult. fil.
Perennial. Steppe, slopes of ravines. It has not been found in the Park. but V.V. Fedyaeva
(2004) is of the opinion that it is common in the adjacent Sholokhovsky district of
Rostov region. Edge of wood-steppe plants. Fl. III-IV. Apparently it was stated for the
Volgograd region by mistaken identity.
Tulipa biebersteiniana Schult. et Schult. fil. s.l.
Perennial. Woods, slopes of steppe ravines, shrubby thickets, glades and edges of forest.
Quite common. Edge of wood-woody-steppe plants.
In the territory of the Park there are several different forms related to T. biebersteiniana.
So, in Shakinskaya Dubrava a white flowering form occurs, which was once identified
as a separate species, T. patens Agardh. ex Schult. & Schult. f. (Sagalaev, 2006b). Tulipa
patens was identified in the Nekhaevsky district (Kuvaldina, 1982). We discovered it
in a small glade, numbering several dozen plants, growing together; it was a pale
yellow flowering form. The flowers were of nearly the same shape as the typical
T. biebersteiniana, but of another colour. They have white petals, with yellow centre,
and pinkish tips. Besides, in more shady and wet places another form was found,
with larger flowers, hooked and bending inflorescenses before flowering, rather large
bulbs which produce stolons. In many characteristics these plants may be united with
real Tulipa sylvestris L. At chalk hills and saline places one finds another form – these
are low plants with narrow glaucous leaves and upright inflorescences. Earlier it was
described as T. scythica Klok. & Zos. The real status of these forms is not clear for us at
present and requires further investigation.
T. schrenkii Regel (T. gesneriana L.)
Perennial. Open slopes of steppe ravines, chalk hills. It prefers hard clay, salty or
carbonate soils. Seldom (near stanitsas Ust-Buzulukskaya, Bukanovskaya, Fedoseevskaya
etc.). Steppe plants. It has become a very rare plant due to ploughing up of virgin
steppe and mass picking for bunches of flowers. Nowadays it does not produce the
same spectacle as in former times, when it made complete red-yellow fields. Yellow
flowers may be found much more seldom than red ones (according to literature data
they may also be white). The flowers may,or not, have black or yellow spot in the
middle (near the base of petals); petals being acuminate or more seldom obtuse. Bulbs
are situated much deeper in the ground than those of other tulips.
Introduced and cultivated Liliaceous plants
Some decorative species of local flora are cultivated in gardens and orchards
at stanitsas Bukanovskaya, Kumilzheskaya and other small and large Cossack
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