Caragana

Caragana is a genus of about 80–100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.

Caragana
Caragana sinica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Hedysareae
Genus:	Caragana Lam. (1785)
Type species
Caragana arborescens Lam.
Sections and species[1][2][3]
See text
Range of the genus Caragana
Synonyms[4]
Aspalathus Amman ex Kuntze (1891), nom. illeg. Halimodendron Fisch. ex DC. (1825)

Flowering caragana (camel's tail) in the south of Buryatia, Russia

They are shrubs or small trees growing 1–6 m (3.3–19.7 ft) tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod.

Caragana species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including dark dagger.

Sections and species

Section Bracteolatae

• Caragana ambigua Stocks
• Caragana bicolor Kom.
• Caragana brevispina Royle ex Benth.
• Caragana conferta Benth. ex Baker
• Caragana franchetiana Kom.
• Caragana gerardiana Royle ex Benth.
• Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
• Caragana sukiensis C.K.Schneid.
• Caragana tibetica (Maxim. ex C.K. Schneid.) Kom.

Section Caragana

• Caragana arborescens Lam.
• Caragana boisii C.K.Schneid.
• Caragana bungei Ledeb.
• Caragana korshinskii Kom.
• Caragana microphylla Lam.
• Caragana pekinensis Kom.
• Caragana prainii C.K.Schneid.
• Caragana purdomii Rehder
• Caragana soongorica Grubov
• Caragana stipitata Kom.
• Caragana turkestanica Kom.
• Caragana zahlbruckneri C.K.Schneid.

Section Frutescentes

• Caragana aurantiaca Koehne
• Caragana brevifolia Kom.
• Caragana chinghaiensis Y.X. Liou
• Caragana camilli-schneideri Kom.
• Caragana frutex (L.) K.Koch
• Caragana gobica Sanchir
• Caragana kirghisorum Pojark.
• Caragana laeta Kom.
• Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
• Caragana opulens Kom.
• Caragana polourensis Franch.
• Caragana pygmaea (L.) DC.
• Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
• Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehder
• Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
• Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
• Caragana ussuriensis (Regel) Pojark.
• Caragana versicolor Benth.

Unnamed section

• Caragana bongardiana (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Pojark.^[5]
• Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou^[5]
• Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.^[5]
• Caragana roborovskyi Kom.^[5]
• Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.^[5]

Basal species

• Caragana acanthophylla Kom.^[6]
• Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.^[6]
• Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.^[6]
• Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.^[6]

Incertae sedis

• Caragana afghanica Kitam.
• Caragana alaica Pojark.
• Caragana alaschanica Grubov
• Caragana alexeenkoi Kamelin
• Caragana alpina Y.X. Liou
• Caragana arcuata Y.X. Liou
• Caragana balchaschensis (Kom.) Pojark.
• Caragana beefensis S.N. Biswas
• Caragana brachypoda Pojark.
• Caragana buriatica Peschkova
• Caragana campanulata Vassilcz.
• Caragana cinerea (Kom.) N.S. Pavlova
• Caragana crassipina C. Marquand
• Caragana cuneato-alata Y.X. Liou
• Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
• Caragana densa Kom.
• Caragana erinacea Kom.
• Caragana fruticosa (Pall.) Besser
• Caragana grandiflora (M. Bieb.) DC.
• Caragana halodendron (Pall.) Dum.Cours.
• Caragana kansuensis Pojark.
• Caragana kozlowii Kom.
• Caragana leucospina Kom.
• Caragana leveillei Kom.
• Caragana limprichtii Harms
• Caragana litwinowii Kom.
• Caragana maimanensis Rech. f.
• Caragana manshurica (Kom.) Kom.
• Caragana polyacantha Royle
• Caragana × prestoniae R.J. Moore
• Caragana scythica (Kom.) Pojark.
• Caragana shensiensis C.W. Chang
• Caragana × sophorifolia Tausch
• Caragana spinifera Kom.
• Caragana turfanensis (Krasn.) Kom.
• Caragana ulicina Stocks

Range maps

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  Range of the genus Caragana
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  Range of the section Bracteolatae
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  Range of the section Caragana
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  Range of the section Frutescentes