Dodartia orientalisL.

WFO wfo-0000652737 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Svetlana Polevova
fig. a Svetlana Polevova, CC0 1.0 / 2019-05-17 / obs. 73717904
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Svetlana Polevova
fig. b Svetlana Polevova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 73715594
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. c Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29352047
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. d Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199580725
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. e Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99960307
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. f Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99960301
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. g Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99960294
Dodartia orientalis, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. h Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99960275

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Dodartia orientalis is native: Afghanistan, Altay, China North-Central, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Central European Russia, East European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine AfghanistanAltayChina North-CentralChina South-CentralInner MongoliaIranKazakhstanKirgizstanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Dodartia orientalis, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR

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 397 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -18.5 °C -9.4 °C -2.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.9 °C 29.3 °C 35.3 °C
Annual rainfall 155 mm 306 mm 769 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 53 mm 94 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 397 research-grade observations of Dodartia orientalis 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 2 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.

  • Dodartia atrocoerulea Pavlov
  • Dodartia virgata Moench

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.