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1. Climate

About climate mapping

To make searching practical, SilvaGrid groups the bioclimatic zones from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) into five primary macro-climates:

Tropical: Equatorial and tropical zones defined by consistent year-round warmth. This encompasses the wet tropics, seasonally dry tropics, and cooler high-altitude montane tropics.
Subtropical: Warm transition zones between tropical and temperate regions, typically characterized by mild, largely frost-free winters. (Note: WCVP groups dry-summer Mediterranean climates within this broader biome).
Temperate: Mid-latitude climates defined by distinct seasonal shifts, including a true winter season where regular frosts and plant dormancy are expected.
Arid: Moisture-deficient climates—including true deserts and dry shrublands—where evaporation exceeds precipitation, requiring severe drought adaptations.
Cold: High-latitude subarctic or high-altitude subalpine climates defined by severe winters, prolonged freezing, and highly restricted growing seasons.

These categories describe a species' primary native environment and serve as a broad baseline for cultivation. While many plants can be successfully grown across multiple macroclimates—for example, some species mapped to the Tropical macroclimate can also be grown in temperate climates—others may have much narrower climatic requirements within their mapped macroclimate. Local factors such as frost hardiness, summer heat, rainfall and soil conditions should always be considered before planting.

2. Plant Types

About plant types

SilvaGrid Plant Types are practical horticultural and botanical groupings derived from WCVP life-form descriptions, taxonomy, or a combination of the two. Some correspond closely to established botanical groups, while others bring together plants with similar growth forms for practical discovery.

Trees: Woody plants with persistent above-ground stems, generally forming an elevated crown or canopy. Large herbaceous tree-like plants are excluded.
Shrubs: Woody or partly woody plants with a shrub or subshrub growth form, typically branching low rather than forming a single main trunk.
Climbers & Vines: Plants with a climbing growth habit, including herbaceous climbers and woody lianas that use other vegetation or structures for support.
Conifers: Gymnosperms from the major conifer families, including pines, cypresses, podocarps and their relatives, ranging from low shrubs to large trees.
Palms & Cycads: True palms from the Arecaceae family together with cycads. The two are not close botanical relatives, but are grouped here as a practical horticultural and landscape category.
Ferns: Vascular, spore-producing plants within the fern group, ranging from small ground-layer and epiphytic forms to large tree ferns.
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes: A practical group combining true grasses, sedges, rushes and restios. Bamboos are shown separately because of their distinctive growth form.
Bamboos: Members of the grass family, shown separately from other grasses because of their distinctive growth forms and horticultural use.
Herbaceous Perennials: Non-woody, multi-year plants, including evergreen tropical perennials and large herbaceous forms. Bulbs and other geophytes are shown separately.
Annuals & Biennials: Short-lived plants that complete their life cycle over one or two growing seasons.
Bulbs & Geophytes: Plants with underground storage organs such as bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes, allowing them to persist through seasonal dormancy.
Cacti & Succulents: Cacti and other succulent plants with fleshy or thickened tissues associated with water storage, spanning many unrelated botanical groups.
Aquatic & Pond Plants: Plants adapted to living in water or water-saturated soils, including submerged, floating and emergent forms.
Air Plants & Epiphytes: Epiphytic and lithophytic plants that grow on trees or rocks, including many plants commonly described as air plants.

3. Native range (WGSRPD)

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About WGSRPD mapping

SilvaGrid uses the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) to organise native plant distributions. WGSRPD is an international botanical standard maintained by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and is also used by the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP).

Botanical geography: SilvaGrid uses WGSRPD continents, regions and "botanical countries". These provide consistent units for recording plant distributions, but they do not always correspond exactly to modern political countries.
Consistent distribution data: Using the same geographic framework as WCVP allows SilvaGrid to preserve and compare native-range information consistently across the global plant dataset.

WGSRPD is a system for recording plant distributions rather than a climate, habitat or site-suitability classification.

Genus Tamarix

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A member of the Tamaricaceae family, the genus Tamarix is a group comprising 82 taxa. It is found natively in Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, and Tropical Asia. Across its taxa, it is commonly associated with subtropical, temperate, and desert or dry shrubland climate conditions. It features a mix of trees and shrubs.

Data Profile

Taxonomic Scale: 82 taxa (74 base species, 8 variants).
Centers of Diversity: Temperate Asia (68), Tropical Asia (28), Europe (21)
Primary Climates: Desert Or Dry Shrubland (30), Temperate (29), Subtropical (19)
Dominant Forms: Trees (57), Shrubs (53)

82 taxa found

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Tamarix africana

— African Tamarisk, Saltcedar Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees

Tamarix alii

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix amplexicaulis

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix androssowii

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix aphylla

— Athel Pine, Athel Tamarisk Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees

Tamarix aralensis

— Russian Tamarisk, Saltcedar Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees

Tamarix arborea

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix arceuthoides

Family: Tamaricaceae

Arid Trees Shrubs

Tamarix aucheriana

Family: Tamaricaceae

Arid Trees Shrubs

Tamarix austromongolica

Family: Tamaricaceae

Arid Trees Shrubs

Tamarix austromongolica subsp. austromongolica

Family: Tamaricaceae

Arid Trees Shrubs

Tamarix austromongolica subsp. qinghaiensis

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix baluchistanica

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix boveana

Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees Shrubs

Tamarix brachystachys

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix canariensis

— Canary Island Tamarisk, Saltcedar Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees Shrubs

Tamarix chinensis

— China Tamarisk, Chinese Saltcedar Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix dalmatica

Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees

Tamarix dioica

— Saltcedar, Tamarisk Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix dubia

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix duezenlii

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tamarix elongata

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix ericoides

Family: Tamaricaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Tamarix florida

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees

Tamarix gallica

— French Tamarisk, Tamarisk Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix gansuensis

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Shrubs

Tamarix gennessarensis

Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees

Tamarix gracilis

Family: Tamaricaceae

Temperate Trees Shrubs

Tamarix hampeana

— Hampe’s Tamarisk Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees

Tamarix hampeana var. hampeana

Family: Tamaricaceae

Subtropical Trees

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