Flora of East European Russia

Minuartia krascheninnikovii is a species of flowering plant in the sandwort genus Minuartia, family Caryophyllaceae, native to East European Russia. It is found in the petrophytic steppes of the southern Ural Mountains.

Typha incana is a plant species native to the eastern part of European Russia and to Western Siberia (За́падно-Сиби́рский экономи́ческий райо́н). The species grows in freshwater marshes and along banks of rivers and lakes.

Nymphaea × sundvikii is a species of waterlily endemic to Central and East European Russia. It is a natural hybrid of Nymphaea candida and Nymphaea tetragona.

Linum ucranicum is a species of flowering plant in the flax genus Linum, family Linaceae, native to Ukraine and parts of European Russia. It is confined to chalk outcrops.

Lathyrus rotundifolius, the Persian everlasting pea, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to Iran. Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall, this herbaceous perennial climber has twining, clinging tendrils and brick red flowers in summer. Unlike its relative, the sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus), the flowers are unscented. It is hardy to −20 °C (−4 °F), but requires a position in full sun. It holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It is a suitable subject for scrambling over a fence or through another shrub or tree.

Chrysochamela is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. Its native range is Turkey to Syria. Species: Chrysochamela draboides Woronow Chrysochamela elliptica (Boiss.) Boiss. Chrysochamela noeana (Boiss.) Boiss. Chrysochamela velutina (DC.) Boiss.

Vincetoxicum rossicum is a flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is a perennial herb native to southern Europe and is a highly invasive plant growing in all of the Eastern United States, in the mid west, and southern Ontario and Quebec in Canada. It has several common names including swallowwort, pale swallowwort, and dog-strangling vine; though it does not actually strangle dogs, it can “strangle” native plants and small trees if it is in dense patches. There has historically been much confusion about the genus it belongs to, with authors placing it within Vincetoxicum and others

Arabidopsis suecica, synonyms including Hylandra suecica, is a species of cruciferous plants. It is native to Sweden, Finland, and parts of European Russia, and has been introduced into neighbouring regions. It was originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1846 as a subspecies of Arabis thaliana (now Arabidopsis thaliana) and raised to a full species by Johan Petter Norrlin in 1878. In 1961, it was moved to its own genus Hylandra by Áskell Löve. As of March 2024 the move was not accepted by Plants of the World Online, and Hylandra is considered a synonym of Arabidopsis.

Allium tulipifolium is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan and Altay Krai. It is found at elevations of 600–1000 m. Allium tulipifolium has round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 20 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 40 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, waxy, up to 2 cm across, much shorter than scape, with a pink or dark green margin. Umbel has many flowers, the tepals white with dark green or purple mid-veins.

Dianthus acicularis is a species of pink in the carnation family mostly found in the Urals region; eastern European Russia and western Siberia, with some occurrences in Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang in China. A diploid, its resistance to bacterial wilt of carnation and ease of cell line propagation in the laboratory make it useful for breeding ornamental carnations for the cut flower industry.

Salix caspica is a plant from the willow genus (Salix) within the willow family (Salicaceae). The natural range extends from eastern European Russia to far western China.

Iris glaucescens is a plant species in the genus Iris and subgenus Iris. It is a rhizomatous perennial, found in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. It has blue-grey sickle-shaped leaves, slender stem, and spring flowers in blue-violet, pale violet, lilac-purple, to deep purple, to light bluish, and almost white shades. It is rarely cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions. It was merged with another similar iris in the region, and became a synonym of Iris scariosa, before being divided into two separate species again, although some sources still call it a synonym of Iris

Allium delicatulum is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Western Siberia, Xinjiang, and Kazakhstan. It grows in open grasslands and deserts. Allium delicatulum produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scapes are up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are round and hollow, shorter than the scapes. Flowers have white or pink tepals with dark red midveins.

Dianthus rigidus is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Crimea, east and south European Russia, Kazakhstan, and Western Siberia. It was first described by F. A. Marschall von Bieberstein in 1808.

Matthiola fragrans is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to Ukraine, south, east and central European Russia, and Kazakhstan. It is confined to chalk outcrops.

Silene media is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Ukraine, parts of Russia, and Kazakhstan. It prefers to grow in un-flooded sandy soils.

Atriplex hortensis, known as garden orache, red orache or simply orache (; also spelled orach), mountain spinach, French spinach, or arrach, is a species of plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable that was common before spinach; it is still grown as a warm-weather alternative to spinach. For many years, it was classified in the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), but it has now been absorbed into the Amaranthaceae. It is Eurasian, native to Asia and Europe, and widely naturalized in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Alcea rugosa, the Russian hollyhock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to Ukraine, Crimea, south European Russia, and the Caucasus, and has been introduced as a garden escapee into Wisconsin and Maryland in the United States. It is resistant to Puccinia malvacearum rust, and hardy to USDA zone 4.

Leymus akmolinensis is a species of grass endemic to Russia and Kazakhstan.

Nymphaea × borealis is a species of waterlily native to Sweden, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and East European Russia. It is a natural hybrid of Nymphaea alba and Nymphaea candida.

Linaria altaica is a species of flowering plant that was described by Fisher and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour. Linaria altaica belongs to the genus Linaria, in the family Plantaginaceae. It has no listed subspecies.

Hieracium morulum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. Its native range is Scandinavia, and northern Russia to the Urals.

Chamaecytisus borysthenicus is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to most of Ukraine, with the notable exception of Crimea, where it has gone extinct, East European Russia, North Caucasus, Kazakhstan and West Siberia. It has been introduced to regions such as the Baltic states, Central European Russia and South European Russia.

Allium saxatile is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Belarus, Caucasus, and the Altai Krai region in Siberia. The species was formerly perceived as including additional populations from central and eastern Asia but recent studies have resulting in splitting of the old species into several distinct species.

Aconitum lasiostomum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aconitum, native to Eastern Europe.

Astragalus falcatus is a species of milkvetch known by the common names Russian milkvetch, sickle milkvetch, sicklepod milkvetch, and silverleaf milkvetch. It is a flowering plant found primarily in meadows and grasslands and sometimes in open woodlands.

Galitzkya is a genus of 3 species of flowering plants of family Brassicaceae, according to Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I. 2003. Named after Nikolai Petrovic Ikonnikov-Galitzky (1892—1942), Russian botanist. Three species are accepted. Galitzkya macrocarpa (Ikonn.-Gal.) V.V.Botschantz. Galitzkya potaninii (Maxim.) V.V.Botschantz. Galitzkya spathulata (Stephan ex Willd.) V.V.Botschantz.

Ofaiston is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. The only species is Ofaiston monandrum. Its native range is Eastern Europe to Western Siberia and Central Asia.

Pseudoarabidopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Pseudoarabidopsis toxophylla, a biennial or perennial which ranges from Crimea and Ukraine through southern and eastern European Russia to Kazakhstan, western Siberia, and the Altai Mountains.

Allium caeruleum (blue globe onion, blue ornamental onion, blue-of-the-heavens, blue-flowered garlic; syn. Allium azureum Ledeb.) is an ornamental bulbous plant of the onion genus, native to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang). In these regions, it is found on dry slopes, plains, and steppes. This plant is cited in the Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe puis L'illustration horticole by Charles Antoine Lemaire. It grows to 80 cm (31"), producing strap-shaped leaves and small globes (umbels) of blue flowers in early summer. The one-inch