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Cercis racemosa Oliv.

Fabaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +1

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Summary

Cercis racemosa, the chain-flowered redbud, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to central and southern China. A open-habit tree reaching 8 to 15 m (26 to 49 ft), it is found in dense forests, and on mountain slopes, but it is also adaptable enough to human disturbances to be found near roads and villages, typically at elevations from 1,000 to 1,900 m (3,300 to 6,200 ft). It flowers in May. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cercis racemosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cercis

Cercis is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Cercidoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It contains small deciduous trees or large shrubs commonly known for the Judas tree in Europe or as redbuds in the USA. They are characterised by simple, rounded to heart-shaped leaves and pinkish-red flowers borne in the early spring on bare leafless shoots, on both branches and trunk ("cauliflory"). More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cercis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 22 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 22 of the 22 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker32.089, 109.816 · in the densest population, 8 records (36% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 22 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 20 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 22 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 22 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Cercis 8 in the reference

Cercis canadensis Cercis canadensis Eastern redbud Photo: CC BY, Michael J. PapayCercis chinensis Cercis chinensis Chinese redbud Photo: CC BY, mister_bumbleCercis chingii Cercis chingii Fabaceae Photo: Public domain, StickpenCercis glabra Cercis glabra Smooth redbud Photo: Public domain, JoshnadlerCercis griffithii Cercis griffithii Griffith's redbud Photo: CC BY, Nasser HalawehCercis occidentalis Cercis occidentalis California redbud Photo: CC BY, Andrew PoganyCercis orbiculata Cercis orbiculata Arizona redbud Photo: CC BY, CK2AZCercis siliquastrum Cercis siliquastrum Judas-tree Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinha

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
Oliv.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
22 in range · 10 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2122 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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