| Family | POLYGALACEAE |
| Genus species | Polygala tenuifolia Willd. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 879 (1802) |
| Native Range | Siberia to China and Korea |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland and thickets |
| Altitude | 200-2300m |
| Description | leaves subsessile, linear, 1-3cm, papery, glabrous, entire, acuminate, raceme terminal, secund, 5-7cm, few flowered, sepals 5, persistent, petals 3 |
| Size | 15-40cm |
| Color | purple |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Polygala sibirica var. angustifolia Ledeb. Polygala sibirica var. tenuifolia (Willd.) Backer & Moore Polygala sibirica f. tenuifolia (Willd.) Regel |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk, PRM Primorye) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHS China Southeast) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (KOR Korea) |