Astragalus sareptanusA.K.Becker

WFO wfo-0000208209 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by bulatik
fig. a bulatik, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-15 / obs. 197783739
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. b Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128158987
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. c Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194638783
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Stanislav Murashkin
fig. d Stanislav Murashkin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191262438
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. e Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132316083
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. f Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128576980
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. g Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128220586
Astragalus sareptanus, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. h Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128577201

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Astragalus sareptanus is native: Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Krym, South European Russia, Ukraine KazakhstanWest SiberiaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaKrymSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Astragalus sareptanus, 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
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Krym KRY
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Kazakhstan KAZ ASIA-TEMPERATE
West Siberia WSB

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 378 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.8 °C -14.0 °C -9.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.3 °C 25.8 °C 28.7 °C
Annual rainfall 353 mm 472 mm 549 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 60 mm 85 mm 102 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 378 research-grade observations of Astragalus sareptanus 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 3 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 longipes Steud.
  • Astragalus rupifragus unranked caulescens Pall.
  • Astragalus rupifragus var. caulescens (Pall.) DC.

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.