Caragana is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.
They are shrubs or small trees growing 1-6 m (3-20 ft) tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod.
Caragana species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Dark Dagger.
- Selected species
- Caragana ambigua Stocks
- Caragana arborescens Lam.
- Caragana aurantiaca Koehne
- Caragana boisii C.K.Schneid.
- Caragana brachyantha Rech.f.
- Caragana brevifolia Kom.
- Caragana brevispina Royle ex Benth.
- Caragana bungei Ledeb.
- Caragana camilli-schneideri Kom.
- Caragana chamlague LAMRK
- Caragana conferta Benth.
- Caragana davazamcii Sancz.
- Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
- Caragana densa Kom.
- Caragana erinacea Kom.
- Caragana franchetiana Kom.
- Caragana frutex (L.) K.Koch
- Caragana gerardiana Royle ex Benth.
- Caragana grandiflora DC.
- Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
- Caragana korshinskii Kom.
- Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
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- Caragana leveillei Kom.
- Caragana manshurica (Kom.) Kom.
- Caragana microphylla Lam.
- Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.
- Caragana polourensis Franch.
- Caragana pruinosa Kom.
- Caragana pygmaea (L.) DC.
- Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
- Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
- Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehder
- Caragana sophoraelia Tausch
- Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.
- Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
- Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
- Caragana tibetica Maxim. ex Kom.
- Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.
- Caragana turkestanica Kom.
- Caragana ulicina Stocks
- Caragana versicolor Benth.
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