Flora of Chita

Vicia popovii is a species of flowering plant in the vetch genus Vicia, family Fabaceae, native to Chita and Amur Oblasts of Russia. It is a climber.

Corispermum pallasii, common name Pallas bugseed, is a plant apparently native to Siberia but naturalized in Europe, Canada, and the Great Lakes Region of the United States. It is a branched herb growing on sand dunes and other sandy soils. This plant is named after botanist and zoologist Peter Simon Pallas and was published by Stevens as Corispermum pallasii in Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou. 5: 336. 1817. Subspecies: Corispermum pallasii subsp. membranaceum (Bisch. ex Shnittspalm) Tzvelev (synonym: Corispermum membranaceum (Bisch. ex Shnittspalm) Iljin)

Carex relaxa is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of Siberia and Mongolia.

Dasiphora glabrata, with synonyms including Potentilla glabrata, Dasiphora davurica and Potentilla davurica, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to Siberia (Chita), the far east of Russia (Primorye) and north east China (Manchuria).

Festuca venusta is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. The species was first published in 1929. This species is native to South Siberia, and Mongolia.

Salix alexii-skvortzovii is a species of willow native to eastern Asia.

Arctohyalopoa is a genus of grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to the eastern Russian oblasts of Krasnoyarsk, Sakha, and Zabaykalsky Krai.

Leonurus sibiricus, commonly called honeyweed or Siberian motherwort, is an herbaceous plant species native to China, Mongolia, and Siberia. It has verticillaster inflorescence. It is naturalized in many other parts of the world, including South, Central and North Americas.

Allium neriniflorum is a species of wild onion in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Mongolia, the Zabaykalsky Krai region of Siberia, and northern China (Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning). It grows on coastal sand dunes, wet meadows, hillsides, etc., at elevations up to 2000 m. Allium neriniflorum produces one round or egg-shaped bulb up to 2 cm (2⁄3 in) in diameter. Scape is up to 50 cm (20 in) tall. Leaves are round in cross-section, hollow, about the same length as the scape. Umbels contain only a few flowers, usually red or red-violet but sometimes white.

Fritillaria dagana is a rare bulbous herbaceous perennial plant native to Siberia, Russia. It is a species in the genus Fritillaria of the family Liliaceae. It is placed in the subgenus Liliorhiza.

Iris ivanovae is a plant species in the genus Iris and part of the subgenus Iris and in the section Pseudoregelia. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from eastern Russia, China, and Mongolia. It has narrow and linear light green leaves, short slender stem and pink-purple flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.

Allium prostratum is an Asian species of wild onion native to Siberia (Zabaykalsky Krai, Buryatia, Yakutia), Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang. It grows in sunlit locations on steppes and rocky slopes. Allium prostratum spreads by means of a robust horizontal rhizome. It produces 1 or 2 bulbs up to 10 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 25 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric, with purple flowers.

Allium leucocephalum is an Asian species native to Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Heilongjiang. Allium leucocephalum produces one or two bulbs, each up to 13 mm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are more or less tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is spherical crowded with many white or very pale yellow flowers.

Carex glauciformis, also known as pseudo-glaucous sedge, is a sedge that is native parts of eastern Asia including north eastern parts of China, Mongolia, Korea and far eastern parts of Russia including Primorye, Siberia and Amur.

Salix ledebouriana is a species of willow. It is found from the southern West Siberian Plain, across Kazakhstan to Mongolia. It grows as a shrub in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.

Pachyneurum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It contains a single species, Pachyneurum grandiflorum, a perennial native to subalpine and subarctic regions of Xinjiang, Mongolia, and southern Siberia (Altai, Tuva, Buryatia, and Chita Oblast).

Pachyneurum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It contains a single species, Pachyneurum grandiflorum, a perennial native to subalpine and subarctic regions of Xinjiang, Mongolia, and southern Siberia (Altai, Tuva, Buryatia, and Chita Oblast).

Ephedra sinica (also known as Chinese ephedra or ma huang) is a species of Ephedra in the plant family Ephedraceae. Native to Mongolia, northern China, and Russia, it is a shrub found on arid highland slopes, dry river beds, steppes, fields or mountain sides. E. sinica contains alkaloids, including ephedrine, which have been a basis for using the plant in traditional medicine for thousands of years. Due to concerns about alkaloid toxicity, ephedrine has been banned from the market in the European Union, United States, and many other countries.

Fritillaria maximowiczii is a plant species known from northeastern China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning) and eastern Russia (Zabaykalsky Krai, Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye). Fritillaria maximowiczii is a bulb-producing perennial up to 60 cm (24 in) tall. Leaves are whorled, linear to lanceolate, up to 10 cm long. Flowers are nodding, reddish-purple with yellow markings.

Clematis macropetala is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae native to northwestern China, Mongolia, and adjoining areas of Siberia. Its cultivars 'Ballet Skirt', 'Lagoon', 'Pauline', and 'Wesselton' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Lithosciadium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. Its native range extends from Siberia to Mongolia. Species include: Lithosciadium kamelinii (V.M.Vinogr.) Pimenov ex Gubanov Lithosciadium multicaule Turcz.

Carex conspissata is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to eastern Russia, Siberia and Mongolia.

Festuca dahurica is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. This species is native to Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Qinghai. This species was first described in 1934.

Anoplocaryum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. Its native range is from Siberia to Mongolia and includes Northwestern Himalaya. Species: Anoplocaryum compressum Ledeb. Anoplocaryum helenae Volot. Anoplocaryum tenellum A.L.Ebel & Rudaya Anoplocaryum turczaninowii Krasnob.

Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks (petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows from short, thick rhizomes. Historically, different plants have been called "rhubarb" in English. The large, triangular leaves contain high levels of oxalic acid and anthrone glycosides, making them poisonous and therefore inedible. The small flowers are grouped in large compound leafy greenish-white to rose-red inflorescences. The precise origin of culinary rhubarb is unknown. The

Silene stenophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Commonly called narrow-leafed campion, it is a species in the genus Silene. It grows in the Arctic tundra of far eastern Siberia and the mountains of northern Japan. Frozen samples, estimated via radiocarbon dating to be around 32,000 years old, were discovered in the same area as current living specimens and, in 2012, a team of scientists successfully regenerated a plant from the samples.

Primula sieboldii, the Japanese primrose, is a species of primrose that is endemic to East Asia. The species goes by common names such as Siebold's primrose, cherry blossom primrose, Japanese woodland primrose Snowflake, Geisha girl, Madam butterfly and the Japanese primrose which also applies to the related species Primula japonica. It is a recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Gentiana scabra, also known as the Japanese gentian or the Rindō Flower, is a species of flowering plant in the Gentian family (Gentianaceae), found in much of East Asia. The flowers bloom in mid-summer, autumn and are blue or dark blue in color.

Corylus sieboldiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Betulaceae. It is native to several parts of Eastern Asia, Including Amur, Inner Mongolia, Khabarovsk, Manchuria, Korea and Japan.

Allium polyrhizum is a species of wild onion widespread across Zabaykalsky Krai, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Xinjiang) at elevations 1000–3700 m. Allium polyrhizum produces clumps of many narrowly cylindrical bulbs, each generally less than 10 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 30 cm long, round in cross-section. Leaves are tubular, less than 1 cm across, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric with many densely packed flowers. Tepals are usually pink or purple but occasionally white,