Astragalus ceratoidesM.Bieb.

WFO wfo-0000198605 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-10 / obs. 196565439
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. b Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38245810
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. c Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38246846
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. d Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130046282
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129634185
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129636621
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. g Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129372639
Astragalus ceratoides, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130267197

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Astragalus ceratoides is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia, Xinjiang AltayKazakhstanKrasnoyarskWest SiberiaXinjiang
Native distribution of Astragalus ceratoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 102 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.8 °C -17.6 °C -16.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.0 °C 23.4 °C 24.8 °C
Annual rainfall 443 mm 624 mm 1,048 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 29 mm 72 mm 147 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 102 research-grade observations of Astragalus ceratoides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Astragalus ceratoides var. campestris Ledeb.
  • Astragalus ceratoides var. montanus Ledeb.
  • Astragalus stenolobus Bunge
  • Astragalus subulatus var. altaicus Pall.
  • Astragalus subuliformis var. altaicus (Pall.) DC.
  • Philammos ceratoides (M.Bieb.) Steven
  • Tragacantha ceratodes (M.Bieb.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.