Caragana jubata(Pall.) Poir.

WFO wfo-0000194798 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Caragana jubata, photographed by Юлия
fig. a Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-05-10 / obs. 103840270
Caragana jubata, photographed by Andreas Taeger
fig. b Andreas Taeger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179058621
Caragana jubata, photographed by Egor Dyukarev
fig. c Egor Dyukarev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65157796
Caragana jubata, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158981353
Caragana jubata, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157278309
Caragana jubata, photographed by Maria Khoreva
fig. f Maria Khoreva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202593268
Caragana jubata, photographed by Евгений Егорейченков
fig. g Евгений Егорейченков, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190839113
Caragana jubata, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. h Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47194592

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000950945
Filed as
Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
Det. by
Komaróv, V.
Collected
Soulié, J.A. 1893-01-01
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Caragana jubata is native: Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mongolia, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal AltayBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanMongoliaQinghaiTadzhikistanTibetTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaEast HimalayaMyanmarNepal
Native distribution of Caragana jubata, 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
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP

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 394 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -31.0 °C -23.6 °C -14.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 11.5 °C 16.3 °C 22.3 °C
Annual rainfall 321 mm 569 mm 1,131 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 7 mm 20 mm 91 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 394 research-grade observations of Caragana jubata 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 12 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.

  • Aspalathus jubatus (Pall.) Kuntze
  • Astragalus jubata (Pall.) Kuntze
  • Caragana chumbica Prain
  • Caragana czetyrkinii Sanchir
  • Caragana forrestii Sanchir
  • Caragana jubata f. fastigiata R.E.Fr.
  • Caragana jubata f. seczuanica Kom.
  • Caragana jubata var. biaurita Y.X.Liou
  • Caragana jubata var. erecta Regel & Tiling
  • Caragana jubata var. pygmaea Regel & Tiling
  • Caragana jubata var. recurva Y.X.Liou
  • Robinia jubata Pall.

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.