| Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
| Genus species | Ephedra equisetina Bunge |
| Bibliography | Beitr. Fl. Russl.: 324 (1852) |
| Native Range | Caucasus to s. Russian Far East |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 800-3000m |
| Description | branchlets rigid, blue-green or grey-green, pruinose, internodes 1-3cm, leaves opposite, brownish, connate, free part obtusely triangular, fruits red, carnose, ovoid |
| Size | 50-100cm |
| Color | yellowish |
| Bloom | early summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | shrub |
| Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Ephedra equisetina var. monoica Y.Yang Ephedra nebrodensis ssp. equisetina (Bunge) Breistr. ex Greuter & Burdet Ephedra shennungiana Tang |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 31 Russian Far East (PRM Primorye) 32 Middle Asia (KGZ Kirgizistan, TKM Turkmenistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus) 34 Western Asia (TUR Turkey) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |