Allium drummondii, also known as Drummond's onion, wild garlic and prairie onion, is a North American species of onion native to the southern Great Plains of North America. It is found in South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and northeastern Mexico.
Russian Caravan is a blend of oolong, keemun, and lapsang souchong teas. It is described as an aromatic and full-bodied tea with a sweet, malty, and smoky taste. Some varieties do not include lapsang souchong, and thus have a less smoky flavor, while others include assam tea. Traditionally the smoky character was considered to have been imparted to the tea by the close proximity of the camel caravans to countless camp fires en route across the Mongolian Steppes to Russia.
Trichanthemis is a genus of Central Asian plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family.
Lepidolopha is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
Russowia is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The only known species is Russowia sogdiana, native to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.
Glycyrrhiza inflata is a plant species in the genus Glycyrrhiza from China, with common name Chinese licorice. A related species, G. uralensis, however, is more likely the licorice species one finds in traditional Chinese medicine.
Rhododendron rufum (黄毛杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southwestern China, where it grows at altitudes of 2,300–3,800 m (7,500–12,500 ft). It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that grows to 1.5–8 m in height, with leathery leaves that are elliptic to oblong-ovate, 6.5–11 by 3–5 cm in size. The flowers are white to pink with crimson spots.
Allium eduardii is a plant species native to Russia, Mongolia, and northern China.
Allium herderianum is a plant species native to Gansu and Qinghai in China. It grows in dry, sunlit locales at elevations of 2900–3900 meters.
Allium sikkimense is a plant species native to Sikkim, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, India and parts of China. It grows in meadows and on the edges of forests at elevations of 2400–5000 m. The species is cultivated as an ornamental in other regions because of its strikingly beautiful blue flowers. It is used medicinally in the Sikkim Eastern Himalayas.
Allium subangulatum is a Chinese species of wild onion, native to Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai Provinces.
Allium tanguticum is a Chinese species of wild onion native to Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet. It grows at elevations of about 2000–3500 m.
Allium fedschenkoanum is a plant species found high in the high mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang, Xizang (Tibet) and Tajikistan. It is a bulb-forming perennial up to 50 cm tall, producing an umbel of yellow flowers.
Iris winkleri, or Winkler iris, is a species in the genus Iris, classified in the subgenus Hermodactyloides and section Monolepsis. It is a bulbous perennial from Turkestan, in Central Asia.
Stipa turkestanica is a species of grass that grows in India and Central Asia and western Asia. Its culms are 30–70 cm long, and panicles 8–14 cm long, bearing few spikelets.
Fritillaria przewalskii is a Chinese flowering plant species in the lily family Liliaceae. It is found only in China, in the Provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan.
Prunus tangutica is a species of wild peach native to China. Based on its fruit traits it had been considered a wild almond, but genetic and morphological studies have shown that it is more closely related to Prunus persica, the cultivated peach, with its closest relative being Prunus mongolica. It is a very dense spiny shrub or shrubby tree, usually 1 to 2.5 m tall but reaching 4 m, preferring to grow on sunny slopes and alongside streams at 1500 to 2600 m, but found as high as 3400 m. Its flower petals are a pale pink, and its velutinous (velvety) fruit are green when unripe and purplish‑red when ripe. The fruits' mesocarps splits when ripe, which led to it being classified as an almond for over a century, with the exception of Kovalev & Kostina in 1935, who assigned it to Persica.
Prunus setulosa is a species of cherry found in Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces of China. A shrub or small tree 1.5 to 5 m tall, it prefers to grow in forests or thickets in mountain ravines between 1300 and 2,600 m above sea level. Its leaves are eaten by the gray snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus brelichi. Its inflorescences are umbels with two or three flowers. The sepals are leaf-like, and the petals are pink. There are 30 to 40 stamens. It blooms April through June and bears red fruits June through August.
Sibiraea is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rosaceae, disjunctly found in the Balkans, Central Asia, and China. The type species is Sibiraea laevigata, which is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental garden plant.
Zanthoxylum piasezkii is a tree from the family Rutaceae.
