# Caragana

Caragana is a genus of about 80–100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.
They are shrubs or small trees growing 1–6 m (3.3–19.7 ft) tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod.
Caragana species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including dark dagger.

## Sections and species
### Section Bracteolatae

* Caragana ambigua Stocks
* Caragana bicolor Kom.
* Caragana brevispina Royle ex Benth.
* Caragana conferta Benth. ex Baker
* Caragana franchetiana Kom.
* Caragana gerardiana Royle ex Benth.
* Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
* Caragana sukiensis C.K.Schneid.
* Caragana tibetica (Maxim. ex C.K. Schneid.) Kom.

### Section Caragana

* Caragana arborescens Lam.
* Caragana boisii C.K.Schneid.
* Caragana bungei Ledeb.
* Caragana korshinskii Kom.
* Caragana microphylla Lam.
* Caragana pekinensis Kom.
* Caragana prainii C.K.Schneid.
* Caragana purdomii Rehder
* Caragana soongorica Grubov
* Caragana stipitata Kom.
* Caragana turkestanica Kom.
* Caragana zahlbruckneri C.K.Schneid.

### Section Frutescentes

* Caragana aurantiaca Koehne
* Caragana brevifolia Kom.
* Caragana chinghaiensis Y.X. Liou
* Caragana camilli-schneideri Kom.
* Caragana frutex (L.) K.Koch
* Caragana gobica Sanchir
* Caragana kirghisorum Pojark.
* Caragana laeta Kom.
* Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
* Caragana opulens Kom.
* Caragana polourensis Franch.
* Caragana pygmaea (L.) DC.
* Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
* Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehder
* Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
* Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
* Caragana ussuriensis (Regel) Pojark.
* Caragana versicolor Benth.

### Unnamed section

* Caragana bongardiana (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Pojark.
* Caragana changduensis Y.X. Liou
* Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.
* Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
* Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.

### Basal species

* Caragana acanthophylla Kom.
* Caragana dasyphylla Pojark.
* Caragana hololeuca Bunge ex Kom.
* Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.

### Incertae sedis

* Caragana afghanica Kitam.
* Caragana alaica Pojark.
* Caragana alaschanica Grubov
* Caragana alexeenkoi Kamelin
* Caragana alpina Y.X. Liou
* Caragana arcuata Y.X. Liou
* Caragana balchaschensis (Kom.) Pojark.
* Caragana beefensis S.N. Biswas
* Caragana brachypoda Pojark.
* Caragana buriatica Peschkova
* Caragana campanulata Vassilcz.
* Caragana cinerea (Kom.) N.S. Pavlova
* Caragana crassipina C. Marquand
* Caragana cuneato-alata Y.X. Liou
* Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
* Caragana densa Kom.
* Caragana erinacea Kom.
* Caragana fruticosa (Pall.) Besser
* Caragana grandiflora (M. Bieb.) DC.
* Caragana halodendron (Pall.) Dum.Cours.
* Caragana kansuensis Pojark.
* Caragana kozlowii Kom.
* Caragana leucospina Kom.
* Caragana leveillei Kom.
* Caragana limprichtii Harms
* Caragana litwinowii Kom.
* Caragana maimanensis Rech. f.
* Caragana manshurica (Kom.) Kom.
* Caragana polyacantha Royle
* Caragana × prestoniae R.J. Moore
* Caragana scythica (Kom.) Pojark.
* Caragana shensiensis C.W. Chang
* Caragana × sophorifolia Tausch
* Caragana spinifera Kom.
* Caragana turfanensis (Krasn.) Kom.
* Caragana ulicina Stocks

## Range maps

* Range of the genus Caragana
* Range of the section Bracteolatae
* Range of the section Caragana
* Range of the section Frutescentes