Onobrychis arenaria(Kit.) DC.

WFO wfo-0000213870 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. a Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203428854
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170087682
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. c Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140427333
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. d Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137787542
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135541392
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. f Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107709440
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. g Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105112143
Onobrychis arenaria, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. h Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89137158

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04815641
Filed as
Onobrychis arenaria (Kit.) DC.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 41 botanical countries

Regions where Onobrychis arenaria is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, East Aegean Is., Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaChitaEast Aegean Is.IrkutskKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Onobrychis arenaria, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
East Aegean Is. EAI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
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.

Flowering 72 in flower of 73 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Onobrychis arenaria observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 72 of 73 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,958 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.7 °C -10.9 °C -1.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.4 °C 24.2 °C 26.8 °C
Annual rainfall 360 mm 573 mm 977 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 29 mm 99 mm 176 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 1,958 research-grade observations of Onobrychis arenaria 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 70 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.

  • Hedysarum angustifolium E.Thomas ex Gaud.
  • Hedysarum arenarium Kit. ex Schult.
  • Hedysarum carneum G.Lodd.
  • Hedysarum erectum Patrin ex DC.
  • Hedysarum pallidum Schleich.
  • Onobrychis arenaria f. austriaca (Beck) Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria f. borysthenica Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria f. grandifolia Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria f. mareotica (Steven ex DC.) Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria f. reticulosa (Opiz) Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria f. villosa (Gruner) Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria var. austriaca Beck
  • Onobrychis arenaria var. ferganica Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria var. reticulosa (Opiz) Beck
  • Onobrychis arenaria var. sibirica Širj.
  • Onobrychis arenaria var. tommasinii (Jord.) Posp.
  • Onobrychis armena Boiss. & A.Huet
  • Onobrychis armena f. longespicata Širj.
  • Onobrychis balansae var. multiflora Freyn
  • Onobrychis borysthenica (Širj.) Klokov
  • Onobrychis brachypus Vassilcz.
  • Onobrychis cadmea var. microcarpa Boiss.
  • Onobrychis cana (Boiss.) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Onobrychis cana f. villosa Širj.

and 46 more.

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.