Koelpinia linearisPall.

WFO wfo-0000083622 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Koelpinia linearis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. a Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-05-14 / obs. 43877325
Koelpinia linearis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. b Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43877322
Koelpinia linearis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. c Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43877328

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Koelpinia linearis is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Central European Russia, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusGulf StatesIranIraqKazakhstanKuwaitLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTadzhikistanTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanXinjiangPakistanWest HimalayaCentral European RussiaSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Koelpinia linearis, 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
Cyprus CYP
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Xinjiang CHX
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Pakistan PAK 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 120 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.2 °C -2.3 °C 6.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.4 °C 33.4 °C 36.1 °C
Annual rainfall 91 mm 285 mm 628 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 0 mm 23 mm 74 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 120 research-grade observations of Koelpinia linearis 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 5 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.

  • Koelpinia latifolia C.Winkl.
  • Koelpinia linearis var. latifolia (C.Winkl.) Abedin & Ghafoor
  • Koelpinia linearis var. linearis
  • Lapsana koelpinia L.f.
  • Rhagadiolus koelpinia F.W.Schmidt

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.