Prunus sibiricaL.

WFO wfo-0001017342 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Prunus sibirica, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. a Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198346393
Prunus sibirica, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158456110
Prunus sibirica, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. c Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112080776
Prunus sibirica, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. d Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111863758
Prunus sibirica, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. e Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77869454
Prunus sibirica, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. f Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77866733
Prunus sibirica, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. g Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198346444
Prunus sibirica, photographed by zhangshen
fig. h zhangshen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119566544

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Prunus sibirica is native: Buryatiya, China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye BuryatiyaChina North-CentralInner MongoliaManchuriaMongoliaPrimorye Korea
Native distribution of Prunus sibirica, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Buryatiya BRY ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
Inner Mongolia CHI
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM

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 323 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -30.6 °C -26.4 °C -11.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.6 °C 24.6 °C 29.3 °C
Annual rainfall 220 mm 352 mm 681 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 7 mm 10 mm 28 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 323 research-grade observations of Prunus sibirica 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 16 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.

  • Armeniaca sibirica (L.) Lam.
  • Armeniaca sibirica f. abrupta Skvortsov
  • Armeniaca sibirica f. microcarpa Skvortsov
  • Armeniaca sibirica f. pubescens Kostina ex Y.C.Zhu
  • Armeniaca sibirica f. typica Skvortsov
  • Armeniaca sibirica var. multipetala G.S.Liu & L.B.Zhang
  • Armeniaca sibirica var. pleniflora J.Y.Zhang, T.Z.Li, Xui J.Li & Y.He
  • Armeniaca sibirica var. pubescens Kostina
  • Prunus armeniaca var. sibirica (L.) K.Koch
  • Prunus sibirica f. oblonga Skvortsov
  • Prunus sibirica f. pubescens (Kostina ex Nakai) Kitag.
  • Prunus sibirica f. rotunda Skvortsov
  • Prunus sibirica var. pleniflora (J.Y.Zhang, T.Z.Li, Xui J.Li & Y.He) Y.H.Tong & N.H.Xia
  • Prunus sibirica var. pubescens Kostina ex Nakai
  • Prunus sibirica var. pubescens (Kostina) Kitag.
  • Prunus sibirica var. typica Nakai

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.