Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Plants

Girgensohnia

Also called Plant

Plants
Photo: Arkadiusz Nowak, Marcin Nobis, Sylwia Nowak, Agnieszka Nobis, Anna Wróbel, Sebastian Świerszcz, Ewelina Klichowska, Iwon, CC BY 4.0

Girgensohnia is a small genus of five shrubby desert plants in the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), native from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus and central Asia to Pakistan and Xinjiang. They are adapted to dry, saline ground and are not commonly grown as garden or houseplants.

Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; these desert plants tolerate long dry spells.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, well-drained, often saline soil.
Temperature
Tolerant of hot, dry summers and cold winters typical of central Asian deserts.
How easy
Hard

About

Girgensohnia is a small genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. They range from the eastern Mediterranean to the Caucasus, central Asia, Pakistan, and Xinjiang.

Girgensohnia contains five species:

Other Girgensohnia plants

Girgensohnia bungeana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Girgensohnia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…