| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Thermopsis alpina (Pall.) Ledeb. trib. Thermopsideae |
| Bibliography | Fl. Altaic. 2: 112 (1830) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and n. & c. China |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland and scree |
| Altitude | 900-4800m |
| Description | leaflets linear-obovate to ovate, 2-6mm, acute, adaxially usually glabrous, abaxially densely villose, raceme 5-15cm, flowers of 2-3 in 2-3 whorls, corolla 2-3cm long |
| Size | 10-30cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | late spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division in fall; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Podalyria alpina (Pall.) Willd. Sophora alpina Pall. Thermia alpina (Pall.) Spreng. Thermopsis alpestris Czefr. Thermopsis alpina var. licentiana (E.Peter) Z.X.Peng & Y.M.Yuan Thermopsis alpina var. yunnanensis Franch. Thermopsis corgonensis DC. Thermopsis licentiana E.Peter Thermopsis yunnanensis (Franch.) P.C.Li |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |