Caragana



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

They are shrubs or small trees growing 1 – 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.

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.
 * Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou
 * Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.
 * Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
 * Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.

Basal species

 * Caragana acanthophylla Kom.
 * Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.
 * Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.
 * Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.

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