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Chamaecytisus podolicus (Błocki) Klásk.

Fabaceae · Ukraine

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Chamaecytisus podolicus (Błocki) Klásk.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Blocki) Klásk.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-18.0°C
Record low -31.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
24°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
651mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
5–35DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to October, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (483 mm of 651 mm) falls in April to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 14.6 °C against a yearly mean of 8.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to April.

Rain

651 mm in the median year at the habitat, 483 mm of it April to October. Wettest month July at 96 mm, driest month January at 29 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 612 mm to 682 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 651 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 651 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 5 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 5, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -18.0 °C, the absolute minimum -31.4 °C, 5,989 frost nights in 44 years, 136.1 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.3 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -6.1 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -6.5 °C to -5.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 23.8 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -18.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -16 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Chamaecytisus podolicus through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 24 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -6.1 °C; 651 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-40°-20°0°20°40°frost32.3° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-31.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125mm rainDLI 5–35RH 58–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 28 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C0 / -1–01 / 1–26 / 6–713 / 13–1419 / 19–2022 / 21–2324 / 23–2523 / 23–2418 / 18–1913 / 12–136 / 5–61 / 0–1
Night °C-6 / -7–-6-6 / -6–-5-2 / -2–-24 / 3–49 / 9–1013 / 12–1415 / 14–1614 / 14–1510 / 10–115 / 5–50 / -1–0-5 / -5–-4
Rain mm29 / 27–3333 / 30–3534 / 32–3844 / 42–4778 / 64–8291 / 87–10196 / 92–10675 / 63–8058 / 54–6141 / 35–4736 / 34–4236 / 33–38
DLI7 / 7–712 / 12–1219 / 19–2028 / 28–2833 / 33–3535 / 34–3633 / 33–3529 / 29–3121 / 20–2213 / 13–147 / 7–85 / 5–5
RH %67 / 66–6865 / 64–6662 / 61–6258 / 57–5958 / 56–5960 / 58–6160 / 58–6160 / 57–6161 / 59–6263 / 62–6467 / 66–6768 / 67–69
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 28 grid cells holding the 35 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 820:4119 (48.975, 25.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -31.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -18.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 28 distinct grid cells holding 35 of the 35 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 820:4119 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 49.00_26.250, lapse-corrected -16 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 276 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeUkraine · introduced: Belarus · 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 marker49.223, 24.702 · in the densest population, 33 records (82% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 40 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 35 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 28 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. 5 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 40 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Sesleria heufleriana Sesleria heufleriana Balkan blue grass Photo: CC BY, Oleksii VasyliukChamaecytisus albus Chamaecytisus albus Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Dimitǎr BoevskiEchinops exaltatus Echinops exaltatus Globe-thistle Photo: CC BY, Nasser HalawehArum besserianum Arum besserianum Araceae Photo: CC BY, Galyna MykytynetsLinum flavum Linum flavum Golden flax Photo: CC0, author not statedMemoremea scorpioides Memoremea scorpioides Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, naturalist_ua_97

Other Chamaecytisus 15 in the reference

Chamaecytisus albus Chamaecytisus albus Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Dimitǎr BoevskiChamaecytisus austriacus Chamaecytisus austriacus Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovChamaecytisus elongatus Chamaecytisus elongatus Fabaceae Photo: CC0, John Kenrick GibsonChamaecytisus eriocarpus Chamaecytisus eriocarpus Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Salza PalpurinaChamaecytisus hirsutus Chamaecytisus hirsutus Clustered Broom Photo: CC BY, Daniel LinzbauerChamaecytisus leiocarpus Chamaecytisus leiocarpus Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf (Webseite)Chamaecytisus lindemannii Chamaecytisus lindemannii Fabaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedChamaecytisus proliferus Chamaecytisus proliferus Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, TigerenteChamaecytisus purpureus Chamaecytisus purpureus Purple Broom Photo: CC BY, Matteo MartiniChamaecytisus pygmaeus Chamaecytisus pygmaeus Fabaceae Photo: CC0, John Kenrick GibsonChamaecytisus ratisbonensis Chamaecytisus ratisbonensis Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Patrick Hacker Chamaecytisus rochelii Fabaceae all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cytisus albus var. bucovinensis; Cytisus bucovinensis; Cytisus podolicus; Cytisus variabilis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Błocki) Klásk.
Native to
Ukraine
Wild records
40 in range · 28 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 2026-10-21GBIF's key 5354619 is Chamaecytisus podolicus (Blocki) Klásk.; the page links Kew's Chamaecytisus podolicus (Błocki) Klásk., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 49.00_26.250, lapse-corrected -16 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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