Grubovia sedoidesG.L.Chu

WFO wfo-1000084062 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Svyatoslav Knyazev
fig. a Svyatoslav Knyazev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201547035
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150734875
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150747823
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147583296
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. e Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89910159
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by eugene_fruslov
fig. f eugene_fruslov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84663672
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Alexandra Kaganova
fig. g Alexandra Kaganova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101438642
Grubovia sedoides, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. h Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100092293

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 1347054
Filed as
Grubovia sedoides (Pall.) G.L.Chu
Det. by
Strong, Mark T., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
R. Trautmann 1918-08-22
Origin
HU
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Grubovia sedoides is native: Altay, Inner Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia AltayInner MongoliaKazakhstanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusWest SiberiaXinjiangCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European Russia
Native distribution of Grubovia sedoides, 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
Inner Mongolia CHI
Kazakhstan KAZ
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS

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 486 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.1 °C -10.3 °C 0.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.6 °C 26.2 °C 31.6 °C
Annual rainfall 286 mm 436 mm 638 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 47 mm 84 mm 124 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 486 research-grade observations of Grubovia sedoides 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 11 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.

  • Bassia sedoides (Schrad.) Asch.
  • Chenolea sedoides (Schrad.) Hook.f.
  • Echinopsilon sedoides (Schrad.) Moq.
  • Kochia cinerea (Waldst. & Kit.) Sloboda
  • Kochia sedoides Schrad.
  • Salsola cinerea Waldst. & Kit.
  • Salsola sedoides Pall.
  • Salsola spinifex Poir.
  • Sedobassia sedoides (Schrad.) Freitag & G.Kadereit
  • Suaeda sedifolia Pall.
  • Willemetia sedoides Moq.

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.