Haloxylon ammodendron(C.A.Mey.) Bunge ex Fenzl

WFO wfo-0000715230 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

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.

Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Kudaibergen Amirekul
fig. a Kudaibergen Amirekul, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-09-03 / obs. 160891358
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. b Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134328006
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by James Hardcastle
fig. c James Hardcastle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15895284
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. d Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134327982
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Samantha Bazan
fig. e Samantha Bazan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200490875
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Samantha Bazan
fig. f Samantha Bazan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200491105
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Samantha Bazan
fig. g Samantha Bazan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200490908
Haloxylon ammodendron, photographed by Pavel Komkov
fig. h Pavel Komkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76988723

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Haloxylon ammodendron is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang AfghanistanChina North-CentralInner MongoliaIranKazakhstanKirgizstanMongoliaQinghaiTadzhikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanXinjiang
Native distribution of Haloxylon ammodendron, 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
China North-Central CHN
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Mongolia MON
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Xinjiang CHX

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 514 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -20.6 °C -14.5 °C -6.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.6 °C 30.8 °C 35.4 °C
Annual rainfall 57 mm 148 mm 363 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 17 mm 45 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 514 research-grade observations of Haloxylon ammodendron 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.

  • Anabasis ammodendron C.A.Mey.
  • Arthrophytum ammodendron (C.A.Mey.) Litv.
  • Arthrophytum ammodendron var. aphyllum Minkw.
  • Arthrophytum haloxylon Litv.
  • Haloxylon aphyllum (Minkw.) Iljin
  • Pinus orientalis Falk

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.