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Salix alatavica Kar. ex Stschegl.

Salicaceae · Altay, Kazakhstan +2

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Salix alatavica Kar. ex Stschegl.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Kar. & Kir. ex Stschegl.

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
-24.7°C
Jan at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (the weather cell's ground is too far off) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
12°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
778mm
10 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
10–44DLI
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 September, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Salix alatavica is a small shrub from the genus of willow (Salix). It is native to mountainous slopes in Asia, in Kazakhstan, southern Russia, Mongolia, and northern China.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Salix alatavica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (594 mm of 772 mm) falls in April to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 1.7 °C against a yearly mean of -7.3 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to March.

Rain

772 mm in the median year at the habitat, 594 mm of it April to September. Wettest month July at 147 mm, driest month February at 18 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 423 mm to 1,593 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 778 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 772 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: 10 to 44 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 7, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -24.7 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -30.7 °C to -17.5 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 11.6 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is -24.7 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 60% 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. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. 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 Salix alatavica through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 12 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -24.7 °C; 772 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-40°-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°frost°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 10–44RH 56–60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 12 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-17 / -21–-10-13 / -17–-8-8 / -12–-4-3 / -5–33 / 0–89 / 7–1312 / 10–1510 / 8–155 / 3–10-3 / -6–3-11 / -16–-3-16 / -21–-8
Night °C-25 / -31–-18-23 / -28–-16-18 / -23–-11-13 / -16–-6-7 / -10–-2-2 / -4–31 / -1–60 / -2–5-5 / -8–1-13 / -17–-6-20 / -25–-12-23 / -29–-16
Rain mm21 / 11–6518 / 11–7334 / 13–13855 / 29–218100 / 40–273132 / 64–194147 / 96–18793 / 69–13867 / 36–9345 / 28–12132 / 21–10128 / 19–81
DLI13 / 9–1620 / 17–2330 / 27–3339 / 36–4344 / 39–4743 / 41–4640 / 38–4237 / 34–3830 / 28–3221 / 18–2513 / 10–1810 / 7–14
RH %57 / 50–6158 / 51–6058 / 52–5856 / 54–5758 / 55–6059 / 56–6160 / 57–6259 / 56–6158 / 56–5957 / 52–5956 / 50–6056 / 50–63

The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1887 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum -44.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -35.5 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 12 grid cells holding the 13 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 892:5235 (45.375, 81.775). 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 12 distinct grid cells holding 13 of the 13 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 892:5235 (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 45.50_81.875, lapse-corrected +1887 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 3235 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.
NativeAltay, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Mongolia · 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 marker45.37, 81.698 · in the densest population, 32 records (74% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 43 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 13 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 28 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1257 km away. 9 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 30 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 43 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.

Dracocephalum imberbe Dracocephalum imberbe Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinSwertia marginata Swertia marginata Gentianaceae Photo: CC0, Фая БаландинаTrollius lilacinus Trollius lilacinus Lilac Globeflower Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinRhodiola coccinea Rhodiola coccinea Crassulaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedTaraxacum pseudoroseum Taraxacum pseudoroseum Pink-flowered dandelion Photo: CC BY-SA, HardyplantsSaussurea involucrata Saussurea involucrata Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Urgamal Magsar

Other Salix 159 in the reference

Salix acmophylla Salix acmophylla Common Middle East willow Photo: CC BY, Nachman bonesSalix acutifolia Salix acutifolia Siberian violet-willow Photo: CC0, author not statedSalix aegyptiaca Salix aegyptiaca Salicaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot Salix aeruginosa Salicaceae Salix alaxensis Salix alaxensis Felt-leaf willow Photo: CC BY, Ingvild RiskaSalix alba Salix alba White willow Photo: CC BY, Codrin BucurSalix alpina Salix alpina Salicaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedSalix amygdaloides Salix amygdaloides Peach-leaf willow Photo: CC0, author not statedSalix apennina Salix apennina Large-leaved willow Photo: CC BY, Milan ChytrýSalix apoda Salix apoda Salicaceae Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovSalix appendiculata Salix appendiculata Salicaceae Photo: CC BY, Tom and T HermanSalix arbuscula Salix arbuscula Mountain willow Photo: CC BY, Perry Gunnar Larsen all 160 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Salix karelinii; Salix seemenii; Salix spissa. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Salicaceae
Described by
Kar. ex Stschegl.
Native to
Altay, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang +1
Wild records
43 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 5581680 is Salix alatavica Kar. & Kir. ex Stschegl.; the page links Kew's Salix alatavica Kar. ex Stschegl., and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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; 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 45.50_81.875, lapse-corrected +1887 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, +1887 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's, so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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