| Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
| Genus species | Ephedra intermedia Schrenk & C.A.Mey. |
| Bibliography | Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 5: 35 (1845) |
| Native Range | Iran to Mongolia and Himalaya |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | sandy grassland |
| Altitude | 800-4600m |
| Description | branchlets erect or procumbent, rigid, yellowish to blue-green, leaves membranous, sometimes 3-4 in whorls, male spikelets with 6-8 flowers |
| Size | 30-100cm |
| Color | yellowish |
| Bloom | early summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Ephedra ferganensis V.A.Nikitin Ephedra glauca Regel Ephedra heterosperma V.A.Nikitin Ephedra intermedia var. glauca (Regel) Stapf Ephedra intermedia var. persica Stapf Ephedra intermedia var. schrenkii Stapf Ephedra intermedia var. tibetica Stapf Ephedra khurikensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal Ephedra microsperma V.A.Nikitin Ephedra pangiensis Rita Singh & P.Sharma Ephedra persica (Stapf) V.A.Nikitin Ephedra sumlingensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal Ephedra tesquorum (Stapf) V.A.Nikitin Ephedra tibetica (Stapf) V.A.Nikitin Ephedra valida V.A.Nikitin Ephedra vulgaris var. submonostachya Boiss. & Buhse |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TKM Turkmenistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 33 Caucasus (TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |