Plate 1 figs. a–e · 5 separate observations
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Native range 21 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AFG | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China North-Central | CHN | |
| Inner Mongolia | CHI | |
| Iran | IRN | |
| Iraq | IRQ | |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Lebanon-Syria | LBS | |
| Mongolia | MON | |
| Palestine | PAL | |
| Qinghai | CHQ | |
| Tadzhikistan | TZK | |
| Transcaucasus | TCS | |
| Türkiye | TUR | |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | |
| Xinjiang | CHX | |
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Libya | LBY | |
| Morocco | MOR | |
| 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 267 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -18.5 °C | -13.0 °C | 5.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 29.1 °C | 32.8 °C | 39.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 52 mm | 154 mm | 701 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 2 mm | 19 mm | 46 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 267 research-grade observations of Populus euphratica 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 22 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.
- Balsamiflua ariana (Dode) Kimura
- Balsamiflua bonnetiana (Dode) Kimura
- Balsamiflua deltoides Griff.
- Balsamiflua diversifolia (Schrenk) Kimura
- Balsamiflua euphratica (Oliv.) Kimura
- Balsamiflua illicitana (Dode) Kimura
- Balsamiflua litwinowiana (Dode) Kimura
- Balsamiflua mauritanica (Dode) Kimura
- Populus ariana Dode
- Populus bonnetiana Dode
- Populus diversifolia Schrenk
- Populus illicitana Dode
- Populus litwinowiana Dode
- Populus mauritanica Dode
- Populus transcaucasica Jarm. ex Grossh.
- Turanga ariana (Dode) Kimura
- Turanga bonnetiana (Dode) Kimura
- Turanga diversifolia (Schrenk) Kimura
- Turanga euphratica (Olivier) Kimura
- Turanga illicitana (Dode) Kimura
- Turanga litwinowiana (Dode) Kimura
- Turanga mauritanica (Dode) Kimura
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.