🇰🇿 The flowers of Kazakhstan
19 pages from Kazakhstan: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 1 city or region.
Kazakhstan’s plant life is shaped by its vast size and varied climate, with over 6,000 species of vascular plants. The flora changes greatly across the country’s different regions and elevations. Kazakhstan is known for its rich diversity, especially in steppe and mountain zones.
- Kazakhstan has over 6,000 species of vascular plants.
- Plant diversity shifts with climate and elevation.
- Mountain and steppe regions are especially rich in flora.
- The country’s flora varies greatly by region.
The plant life of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan covers a huge area with a mix of steppe, desert, and mountain landscapes. Its climate ranges from arid in the deserts to cooler and wetter in the mountains. This range supports more than 6,000 species of vascular plants, making the country’s flora quite rich. The types and numbers of plants shift depending on geography and climate. The country’s plant life is especially diverse in areas where different climate zones and elevations meet.
From region to region in Kazakhstan
Plant life in Kazakhstan changes with the land. The dry steppes and deserts have different species than the wetter mountain slopes. High-altitude belts in the mountains support unique plants not found in the lowlands. Each nature-climatic zone, from flat plains to rugged hills, has its own set of flowering plants.
The facts in this overview come from the Wikipedia article "Wildlife of Kazakhstan", written by its contributors and used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Phool rewrote the text in its own words, with AI assistance, and compares every page with the article to make sure no passage is copied. It may be reused under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence with a link back.
Cities and regions of Kazakhstan
BirchBetula
Slender trees with papery bark found across the northern world
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
ApricotPrunus armeniaca
A small fruit tree with early white to pink blossoms and golden-orange fruit
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Flowering tree
SafflowerCarthamus tinctorius
A thistle-like annual grown for oil, dye, and as a saffron substitute
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Sweet VioletViola odorata
A scented violet with edible leaves and flowers, native to Eurasia
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Siberian columbineAquilegia sibirica
A hardy lilac-blue and white columbine from Siberia and Central Asia
🇲🇳 Mongolia and 3 more · Wildflower
Tulipa suaveolens
Wild Eurasian tulip with bowl-shaped flowers in many colours
🇷🇺 Russia and 6 more · Wildflower
Albert's tulipTulipa alberti
A wild tulip with reddish, orange or pink flowers from Central Asia's mountains
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan and 2 more · Wildflower
Crocus alatavicus
A white-flowered crocus from the mountains of Central Asia and Xinjiang
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan and 3 more · Wildflower
Paeonia anomala
A wild peony with finely divided leaves and magenta-red flowers from northern Eurasia
🇷🇺 Russia and 4 more · Wildflower
Iris lactea白花马蔺
A hardy wild iris with pale blue to violet blooms from central Asia
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Wildflower
Pygmy waterlilyNymphaea tetragona
A small white waterlily found in calm waters across the northern hemisphere
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Fern leaf peonyPaeonia tenuifolia
A finely divided, red-flowered peony from the steppes of Eurasia
🇬🇪 Georgia and 7 more · Wildflower
Cotton thistleOnopordum acanthium
Tall, spiny thistle with pink to lavender globe-shaped flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Hepatica
A woodland perennial with three-lobed leaves and early spring flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Eremurus
Tall spiked flowers from Central Asia, known as foxtail lilies or desert candles
🇹🇯 Tajikistan and 7 more · Wildflower
Bergenia
A hardy perennial with large leaves and clusters of pink flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Iris florentina
A white, violet-scented iris grown for orris root and as a grave flower
🇮🇹 Italy and 7 more · Wildflower
Place
Almaty Botanical GardenАлматы ботаникалық бағы
Kazakhstan’s largest botanical garden, with plant collections from around the world
Almaty, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Botanical garden
Painted daisyTanacetum coccineum
A colourful daisy grown for gardens and natural insect repellent
🇮🇷 Iran and 8 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Birch: Willow, CC BY 2.5, source
- Eremurus robustus: User name: Schnobby, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus alatavicus: C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, source
- Tulipa suaveolens: Ardyansa Nugraha, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hepatica: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Iris florentina: Abrahami, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Safflower: AndrewMT, CC BY 3.0, source
- Apricot: Fir0002, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet Violet: Fritz Geller-Grimm, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Siberian columbine: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Albert's tulip: Eduard August von Regel (1815–1892), German botanist., Public domain, source
- Paeonia anomala: Eglekuc, CC BY 3.0, source
- Iris lactea: peganum, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pygmy waterlily: Hooker, William; Salisbury, R. A.; Shury, D. N., Public domain, source
- Fern leaf peony: Loquita desita, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cotton thistle: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Almaty Botanical Garden: Nikolai Bulykin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bergenia: Christian Hummert ( Ixitixel ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Painted daisy: kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aksu Zhabagly Wild Tulips: Tomiris, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kazakhstan: Jonas Satkauskas, Attribution, source