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 tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow 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 Poir.
- Caragana sukiensis C.K.Schneid.
- Caragana tibetica 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 K.Koch
- Caragana gobica Sanchir
- Caragana kirghisorum Pojark.
- Caragana laeta Kom.
- Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
- Caragana opulens Kom.
- Caragana polourensis Franch.
- Caragana pygmaea DC.
- Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
- Caragana sinica Rehder
- Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
- Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
- Caragana ussuriensis Pojark.
- Caragana versicolor Benth.
Unnamed section
- Caragana bongardiana Pojark.
- Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou
- Caragana pleiophylla Pojark.
- Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
- Caragana tragacanthoides Poir.
Basal species
- Caragana acanthophylla Kom.
- Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.
- Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.
- Caragana spinosa 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 Pojark.
- Caragana beefensis S.N. Biswas
- Caragana brachypoda Pojark.
- Caragana buriatica Peschkova
- Caragana campanulata Vassilcz.
- Caragana cinerea N.S. Pavlova
- Caragana crassipina C. Marquand
- Caragana cuneato-alata Y.X. Liou
- Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
- Caragana densa Kom.
- Caragana erinacea Kom.
- Caragana fruticosa Besser
- Caragana grandiflora DC.
- 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.
- Caragana polyacantha Royle
- Caragana × prestoniae R.J. Moore
- Caragana scythica Pojark.
- Caragana shensiensis C.W. Chang
- Caragana × sophorifolia Tausch
- Caragana spinifera Kom.
- Caragana turfanensis Kom.
- Caragana ulicina Stocks
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