Gypsophila altissimaL.

WFO wfo-0000713402 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201638191
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. b Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197896680
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187097321
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165124677
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165130707
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. f Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 155399591
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. g Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149462004
Gypsophila altissima, photographed by Pavel Komkov
fig. h Pavel Komkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149689638

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Gypsophila altissima is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Central European Russia, East European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaNorth CaucasusTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Gypsophila altissima, 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
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tuva TVA
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 1,337 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.5 °C -13.2 °C -8.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.3 °C 24.2 °C 26.9 °C
Annual rainfall 394 mm 532 mm 721 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 32 mm 91 mm 119 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 1,337 research-grade observations of Gypsophila altissima 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 6 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.

  • Arrostia altissima Raf.
  • Gypsophila altissima var. elongata Ledeb.
  • Gypsophila scariosa Tausch
  • Gypsophila tianschanica Popov & Schischk.
  • Gypsophila tianschanica M.Pop. & Schischk.
  • Gypsophila ucrainica Kleopow

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.