Dontostemon pinnatifidus(Willd.) Al-Shehbaz & H.Ohba

WFO wfo-0000654141 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. a Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-07 / obs. 77444435
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. b Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199561006
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. c Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157113210
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83984178
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199561018
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139682249
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139682236
Dontostemon pinnatifidus, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80807519

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Dontostemon pinnatifidus is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Tuva, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, East Himalaya, West Himalaya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKhabarovskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTadzhikistanTibetTuvaXinjiangYakutiyaEast HimalayaWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Dontostemon pinnatifidus, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Khabarovsk KHA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

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 175 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -31.8 °C -23.7 °C -18.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.3 °C 20.7 °C 23.9 °C
Annual rainfall 300 mm 406 mm 679 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 10 mm 17 mm 56 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 175 research-grade observations of Dontostemon pinnatifidus 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 29 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.

  • Alaida pectinata (DC.) F.Dvořák
  • Andreoskia pectinata (Fisch. ex DC.) DC.
  • Andrzeiowskia pectinata (DC.) Turcz.
  • Andrzejowskya pectinata (DC.) Turcz.
  • Cheiranthus pinnatifidus Willd.
  • Dichasianthus sergievskianus (Polozhij) Soják
  • Dimorphostemon asper (Pall.) Kitag.
  • Dimorphostemon pectinatus (DC.) Golubkova
  • Dimorphostemon pectinatus var. humilior (N.Busch) Golubkova
  • Dimorphostemon pinnatifidus (Willd.) H.L.Yang
  • Dimorphostemon pinnatus (Pers.) Kitag.
  • Dimorphostemon sergievskiana (Polozhij) S.V.Ovcz.
  • Dimorphostemon sergievskianus (Polozhij) Ovczinnikova
  • Dimorphostemon shanxiensis R.L.Guo & T.Y.Cheo
  • Dontostemon asper (Pall.) Schischk.
  • Dontostemon pectinatus (Fisch. ex DC.) Ledeb.
  • Dontostemon pectinatus var. humilior N.Busch
  • Erysimum glandulosum Monnet
  • Erysimum hookeri Monnet
  • Hesperidopsis pinnatifidus Kuntze
  • Hesperis pilosa Poir.
  • Hesperis pinnata Pers.
  • Hesperis punctata Poir.
  • Neotorularia sergievskiana (Polozhij) Czerep.

and 5 more.

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.