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Helichrysum thianschanicum Regel

Asteraceae · Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan +3

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Helichrysum thianschanicum, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHelichrysum thianschanicum, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHelichrysum thianschanicum, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHelichrysum thianschanicum, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHelichrysum thianschanicum, photograph Stickpen, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHelichrysum thianschanicum, photograph David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Helichrysum thianschanicum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is commonly known as silver spike or icicle plant. It is part of a large genus of over 500 species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Helichrysum thianschanicum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Helichrysum

The genus Helichrysum consists of an estimated 600 species of flowering plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The type species is Helichrysum orientale. They often go by the names everlasting, immortelle, and strawflower. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 9 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 9 of the 9 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.
NativeKazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang · introduced: Germany · 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 marker39.487, 71.798 · in the densest population, 6 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “subalpine or subarctic” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 41 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 9 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 9 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: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); Stickpen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Helichrysum 55 in the reference

Helichrysum adenocarpum Helichrysum adenocarpum Pink Everlasting Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloHelichrysum albobrunneum Helichrysum albobrunneum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossHelichrysum amorginum Helichrysum amorginum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizHelichrysum appendiculatum Helichrysum appendiculatum Sheep'S-Ears Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloHelichrysum arenarium Helichrysum arenarium Sandy everlasting Photo: CC0, author not stated Helichrysum arenicola Strawflower Helichrysum argyrophyllum Helichrysum argyrophyllum Amatola Weed Photo: CC BY, Leon PerrieHelichrysum arwae Helichrysum arwae Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ghislain118 (AD)…Helichrysum aureum Helichrysum aureum Bright Yellow Everlasting Photo: CC0, author not statedHelichrysum auronitens Helichrysum auronitens Golden Everlasting Photo: CC0, Peter WarrenHelichrysum basalticum Helichrysum basalticum Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stan ShebsHelichrysum bellum Helichrysum bellum Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 56 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Helichrysum arenarium var. kokanicum; Helichrysum kokanicum; Helichrysum thianschanicum var. aureum; Helichrysum thianschanicum var. thianschanicum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Regel
Native to
Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Tadzhikistan +2
Wild records
9 in range · 5 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-229 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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