Stipa borysthenicaKlokov ex Prokudin

WFO wfo-0000901800 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. a Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / 2009-07-03 / obs. 94559196
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. b Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94559183
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. c Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94559204
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. d Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94559218
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. e Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94559229
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Roman
fig. f Roman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135516235
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Roman
fig. g Roman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130773253
Stipa borysthenica, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159801685

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Stipa borysthenica is native: Iran, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, North Caucasus, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine IranKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaNorth CaucasusWest SiberiaXinjiangBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Stipa borysthenica, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 244 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.3 °C -6.0 °C -0.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.0 °C 25.5 °C 28.4 °C
Annual rainfall 421 mm 569 mm 624 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 84 mm 99 mm 115 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 244 research-grade observations of Stipa borysthenica 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 15 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.

  • Stipa anomala P.A.Smirn.
  • Stipa baktashevae Tzvelev
  • Stipa borysthenica var. anomala (P.A.Smirn.) M.Nobis
  • Stipa borysthenica var. germanica (Endtm.) Dengler
  • Stipa borysthenica var. marchica (Endtm.) Rauschert
  • Stipa germanica (Endtm.) Klokov
  • Stipa joannis subsp. germanica Endtm.
  • Stipa joannis subsp. sabulosa (Pacz.) Lavrenko
  • Stipa joannis var. marchica Endtm.
  • Stipa pennata f. sabulosa Pacz.
  • Stipa pennata subsp. anomala (P.A.Smirn.) F.M.Vázquez & M.Gut.
  • Stipa pennata subsp. sabulosa (Pacz.) Tzvelev
  • Stipa pennata var. anomala (P.A.Smirn.) Tzvelev
  • Stipa sabulosa (Pacz.) Sljuss.
  • Stipa sabulosa subsp. germanica (Endtm.) Martinovský & Rauschert

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.