| Family | POLYGONACEAE |
| Genus species | Atraphaxis pungens (M.Bieb.) Jaub. & Spach |
| Bibliography | Illustr. Pl. Orient. 2: 14 (1844) |
| Native Range | w. & c. Siberia to w. & n. China |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | steppes |
| Altitude | 500-3400m |
| Description | leaves grey-green, 7-20mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, obtuse or mucronate, shortly petiolate, flowers in short lateral racemes |
| Size | 15-50cm |
| Color | rose, green-white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | shrub |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a deep, drained soil alpine house, rich, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 16-18°C cuttings in late summer; layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Polygonella pungens (M.Bieb.) Meisn. Tragopyrum pungens M.Bieb. |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |