| Family | BORAGINACEAE |
| Genus species | Arnebia guttata Bunge |
| Bibliography | Index Seminum (TU, Dorpatensis) 1840: 7 (1840) |
| Native Range | Afghanistan to sw. Siberia and n. China |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Description | densely adpressed villose, leaves spathulate-linear to linear, 15-55mm, densely hirsute, inflorescence compact, cyme 3-10cm long, corolla tubular-campanulate, 7-12mm |
| Size | 10-25cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring; root cuttings in late winter |
| Synonyms | Arnebia guttata var. thomsonii (C.B.Clarke) Kazmi Arnebia thomsonii C.B.Clarke Arnebia tibetana Kurz Lithospermum guttatum (Bunge) I.M.Johnst. Macrotomia guttata (Bunge) Farrer |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TKM Turkmenistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |