Kitagawia baicalensis(Redow. ex Willd.) Pimenov

WFO wfo-0001216359 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. a Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-15 / obs. 151406221
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152123679
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152128272
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. d Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59043787
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59045826
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148780857
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. g Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148093942
Kitagawia baicalensis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128828299

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Kitagawia baicalensis is native: Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya AltayBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiya
Native distribution of Kitagawia baicalensis, 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
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

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 928 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -29.1 °C -25.5 °C -17.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.3 °C 23.7 °C 25.1 °C
Annual rainfall 250 mm 396 mm 906 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 9 mm 29 mm 95 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 928 research-grade observations of Kitagawia baicalensis 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 9 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.

  • Peucedanum baicalense (Redowsky ex Willd.) W.D.J.Koch
  • Peucedanum caespitosum H.Wolff
  • Peucedanum polyphyllum Ledeb.
  • Peucedanum trinioides H.Wolff
  • Pteroselinum sibiricum Rchb.
  • Selinum acaule Turcz. ex Besser
  • Selinum baicalense Redowsk. ex Willd.
  • Selinum collinum Kit. ex DC.
  • Selinum obscurum Fisch. ex Trev.

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.