| Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
| Genus species | Ephedra distachya L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 1040 (1753) |
| Native Range | Europe to Xinjiang and Caucasus, s. Russian Far East |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | sands |
| Altitude | 100-900m |
| Description | branchlets rigid, dark green, with russet medulla, internodes 15-50mm long, male flowers 8-16 in spike, female flowers in pairs, fruit spherical, 6-7 mm long |
| Size | 25-50cm |
| 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 | Chaetocladus distachys (L.) J.Nelson Ephedra arborea Lag. ex Bertol. Ephedra botryoides Fisch. Ephedra clusii Dufour Ephedra distachya var. caspia (Fomin) Grossh. Ephedra distachya f. caspia Fomin Ephedra distachya f. circinnata Stapf Ephedra distachya subvar. linnaei Stapf Ephedra distachya var. media (C.A.Mey.) Stapf Ephedra distachya ssp. monostachya (L.) Riedl Ephedra distachya subvar. monostachya (L.) Stapf Ephedra dubia Regel Ephedra equisetiformis ssp. distachya (L.) Bonnier & Layens Ephedra linnaei Stapf ex Koehne Ephedra macrocephala Bertol. Ephedra maritima St.-Lag. Ephedra minor Host Ephedra monostachya L. Ephedra podostylax Boiss. Ephedra polygonoides Pall. Ephedra vulgaris Rich. Ephedra vulgaris var. arborea (Lag. ex Bertol.) Nyman Ephedra vulgaris var. media C.A.Mey. Ephedra vulgaris var. minor (Host) Nyman Ephedra vulgaris var. monostachya (L.) C.A.Mey. Ephedra vulgaris var. submonostachya C.A.Mey. Ephedra vulgaris var. subtristachya C.A.Mey. |
| Territory | 1 Europe 11 Middle Europe (CZE Czechoslovakia, HUN Hungary, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (COR Corse, FRA France, SAR Sardegna, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, GRC Greece, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, SIC Sicilia, TUE Turkey-in-Europe, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (KRY Krym, RUE East European Russia, RUS South European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, WSB West Siberia) 31 Russian Far East (PRM Primorye) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, TKM Turkmenistan) 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (TUR Turkey) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHX Xinjiang) |