| Family | POLYGONACEAE |
| Genus species | Atraphaxis frutescens (L.) K.Koch |
| Bibliography | Dendrologie 2(1): 360 (1872) |
| Native Range | se. European Russia to Mongolia |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | steppes |
| Altitude | 500-3000m |
| Description | leaves deciduous, 10-17mm, linear-lanceolate to oblong, blue to grey-green, white spinose, flowers in short, terminal raceme |
| Size | 30-100cm |
| Color | greenish white, pink |
| 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 | Atraphaxis lanceolata (M.Bieb.) Meisn. Atraphaxis laxmanni C.Agardh Atraphaxis micrantha Jaub. & Spach Polygonella lanceolata (M.Bieb.) Meisn. Polygonum frutescens L. Polygonum fruticosum S.G.Gmel. ex Meisn. Tephis frutescens (L.) Raf. Tragopyrum frutescens (L.) Radde Tragopyrum glaucum Spreng. Tragopyrum lanceolatum M.Bieb. Tragopyrum mucronatum K.Koch |
| Territory | 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUS South European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, TKM Turkmenistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |