Puccinellia hauptiana(V.I.Krecz.) Kitag.

WFO wfo-0000895313 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-13 / obs. 84384942
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149569276
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. c Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84384966
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. d Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100822914
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40111121
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75849072
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. g Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160980181
Puccinellia hauptiana, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149569259

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3718784
Filed as
Puccinellia hauptiana (V.I.Krecz.) Kitag.
Det. by
Soreng, Robert J., Research Associate (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
P. M. Peterson, H. L. Chen & L. Lin 2013-09-10
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Puccinellia hauptiana is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, South European Russia, Alaska AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiSakhalinTadzhikistanTurkmenistanTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaSouth European RussiaAlaska Korea
Native distribution of Puccinellia hauptiana, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Sakhalin SAK
Tadzhikistan TZK
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
South European Russia RUS
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA

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 45 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -31.8 °C -18.8 °C -10.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.5 °C 22.8 °C 24.9 °C
Annual rainfall 400 mm 551 mm 1,172 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 18 mm 67 mm 181 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 45 research-grade observations of Puccinellia hauptiana 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.

  • Atropis hauptiana V.I.Krecz.
  • Atropis iliensis V.I.Krecz.
  • Phippsia hauptiana (V.I.Krecz.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Poa hauptiana Trin. ex V.I.Krecz.
  • Puccinellia distans subsp. hauptiana (V.I.Krecz.) W.E.Hughes
  • Puccinellia filiformis V.N.Vassil.
  • Puccinellia iliensis V.I.Krecz.
  • Puccinellia kobayashii Ohwi
  • Puccinellia tenuiflora var. multiflora Norl.

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.