Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
The Sulaiman Range alpine meadows ecoregion follows the higher ridges of the Sulaiman Mountains, a southerly extension of the Hindu Kush along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, sitting at an average elevation of around 2,210 meters. Despite the "meadows" name, much of the terrain is bare ground or sparse alpine steppe, with scattered bunch grasses and cushion plants of the genera Onobrychis and Acantholimon (prickly thrift); surviving forest patches in gullies hold oaks and other Fagaceae, oleander (Nerium), and Afghan ash (Fraxinus xanthoxyloides), along with rare stands of Chilghoza pine and ancient juniper woodland. The climate is harsh and arid, with precipitation rarely exceeding 225 mm a year and cold, dry winters contrasting with hot summers. The range is rich in endemism and shelters mountain wild goats and sheep such as markhor, Sindh ibex, and urial, alongside leopards and brown bears, yet very little of it is formally protected. For gardeners in cold, dry climates, the native Acantholimon (prickly thrift) is a familiar cushion-forming alpine ornamental.
RESOLVE 766
Palearctic
9,218 sq mi
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Type de paysage
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Région végétale
Palearctic
Empreinte de la région
9,218 sq mi
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)
Sourcing et entretien
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Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : High-elevation grasslands, meadows, and shrublands above the treeline or in mountain basins, including alpine and páramo systems. Cool temperatures, intense sunlight, and specialized, often endemic flora characterize them. Pour vos décisions de jardin, associez ce contexte à la liste de plantes ci-dessous, puis affinez selon les contraintes de lumière, d'eau, de sol et de taille adulte de votre site.
Range & origins
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 31.1°N, 67.5°E.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 9,218 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Sulaiman Range alpine meadows, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
Pourquoi ici
Conditions de montane grasslands & shrublands
La région se situe dans le règne Palearctic et est classée comme montane grasslands & shrublands. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Imperiled
Plotwright affiche ceci comme l'empreinte RESOLVE actuelle. Au fil des décennies ou des siècles, le réchauffement, les perturbations, les espèces envahissantes, l'utilisation des terres et la restauration peuvent déplacer la bordure vivante d'une région même lorsque la carte de référence reste fixe.
Collections de plantation
Des recettes de plantation finalisées où chaque membre peut supporter la plage climatique de cette région. Le badge d'adaptation se base sur la plante la plus sensible de la collection, si bien qu'une collection résiliente est un point de départ plus sûr que n'importe quelle vedette isolée.
Résiliente au climat · 2 plantes
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Résiliente au climat · 8 plantes
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Résiliente au climat · 3 plantes
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Résiliente au climat · 6 plantes
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
Résiliente au climat · 9 plantes
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Résiliente au climat · 4 plantes
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
Régions de plantation similaires
Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
RESOLVE 749 - Palearctic
Altai alpine meadow and tundra
The Altai alpine meadow and tundra ecoregion crowns the high Altai Mountains where the borders of Russia, Kazakhstan, China, and Mongolia meet, sitting above the conifer treeline in Central Asia's northernmost ranges. Above the treeline, low-alpine meadows mix grasses such as Stipa feather grass and clumping Festuca with herbaceous wildflowers, dwarf birch (Betula rotundifolia) in wetter northern areas, and sedge-meadows of Kobresia and Carex, giving way to sparse moss, lichen, and creeping cushion plants on the highest plateaus. The climate has a distinctly arctic character, with brief temperate summers, extreme cold winters, and a tundra-like regime where no month averages above 10 degrees Celsius. The ecoregion supports apex predators including snow leopards, lynx, gray wolves, and wolverines, with the vulnerable Altai argali wild sheep serving as a flagship species. Higher slopes also host hardy ornamental and medicinal natives such as dwarf rhododendrons, saxifrage, rhodiola, juniper, and honeysuckle.
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Zones 4b-7b
+6.2°F d’ici 2070
34,811 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 750 - Palearctic
Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
The Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe is a vast high-elevation ecoregion stretching across the Tibetan Plateau of China, reaching east to Qinghai Lake and extending into adjacent parts of India, with land ranging from roughly 3,500 meters to nearly 6,000 meters in elevation. Vegetation is sparse, typically covering only about a fifth of the ground, and is dominated by sedges such as Kobresia and Carex together with purple feathergrass (Stipa purpurea), alongside cushion plants and alpine forbs in more stable, moister soils; there are no trees. The climate is cold and arid, classified as a tundra (Köppen ET) regime with no month averaging above 10 degrees Celsius, and precipitation declining from the northwest toward the southeast. Because the harsh conditions are largely unsuited to agriculture, the ecosystem remains relatively intact and still supports roaming herds of wild ungulates, including the migratory Tibetan antelope, argali, Tibetan wild ass, and the endangered Przewalski's gazelle, along with predators such as the snow leopard and gray wolf. For gardeners, several alpine genera native here, including Saussurea, Leontopodium, and Arenaria, are familiar in cold-hardy rock and cushion-plant horticulture.
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Zones 5a-9b
+5.4°F d’ici 2070
243,123 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 751 - Palearctic
Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
The Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows ecoregion threads along the high Himalaya across five countries, reaching eastward from central Nepal near the Kali Gandaki River through Bhutan and India's Arunachal Pradesh to northern Myanmar and Tibetan China. Nested between the treeline near 4,000 meters and the snowline around 5,500 meters, it shifts from low alpine shrublands dominated by stunted, twisted rhododendrons into open meadows that burst with brightly colored flowers each spring and summer. Characteristic meadow genera include Meconopsis, Primula, Gentiana, Saxifraga, Androsace, Leontopodium, and Pedicularis. The climate is sharply seasonal: the May-to-September monsoon delivers heavy rainfall, with much drier rainshadow pockets, summer temperatures averaging about 20 degrees Celsius, and winters dropping below freezing. Renowned for exceptional botanical richness with over 7,000 plant species recorded, it shelters snow leopards, blue sheep, Himalayan tahr, and takin. Many of its native ornamentals, especially the blue poppies (Meconopsis), rhododendrons, and primulas, are treasured by alpine and rock gardeners.
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Zones 5a-11a
+6.1°F d’ici 2070
46,781 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 752 - Palearctic
Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow
The Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow occupies the high mountainous interior of central Afghanistan, fanning out westward from the capital city of Kabul at its eastern point. Its vegetation is a mix of thornbush meadows and alpine grassland, with Himalayan juniper shrub thickets and herbs and flowering plants including sainfoin, Astragalus, Cousinia, and Artemisia, set across elevations that climb from roughly 1,248 to 4,868 metres. The climate is cold and dry with large seasonal swings and warm summers, giving a mean annual temperature of about 3.2 degrees Celsius and average annual precipitation near 416 millimetres. The ecoregion is best known for the critically endangered Afghan brook salamander (Paghman mountain salamander), which clings to cold high-mountain streams within a potential range of less than 10 square kilometres; less than 1 percent of the region is officially protected, with Band-e Amir National Park, famed for its travertine lakes, the main reserve. For gardeners, several cold-hardy native genera that thrive here, including Astragalus and Artemisia, are familiar in dryland and rock-garden plantings.
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Zones 6b-10b
+6.2°F d’ici 2070
25,671 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 753 - Palearctic
Hindu Kush alpine meadow
The Hindu Kush alpine meadow spans the high Hindu Kush range across northern Afghanistan, northwestern Pakistan, and southern Tajikistan, a steep, mountainous landscape whose terrain mostly sits between 3,000 and 4,000 meters and climbs to peaks above 6,500 meters. Roughly half of it is bare rock or gravelly soil with sparse vegetation, while the remainder carries subalpine thickets, cushion shrublands, and alpine meadows of grasses and herbs, including the genera Primula, Sibbaldia, Astragalus, and Onobrychis. The climate is cold and continental with large seasonal swings, much of the high-elevation precipitation falling as snow. Over 200 vertebrate species have been recorded, with the markhor as the flagship species alongside Siberian ibex, argali, and the endangered Kashmir musk deer, yet the ecoregion currently has no protected areas. For gardeners, the native alpine flora here includes cold-hardy ornamental cushion and rock-garden genera such as Primula and Sibbaldia.
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Zones 5b-9b
+5.2°F d’ici 2070
10,911 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 754 - Palearctic
Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
The Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe is a vast high-elevation grassland ecoregion centered on the Karakoram Range west of the Himalaya, spanning portions of Pakistan, India, China, and Afghanistan within the upper Indus catchment. Most of it is open steppe of Stipa and Festuca grasses and forbs on slopes above 3,000 meters, while valley bottoms hold dense thickets of woody plants such as sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), willow, tamarisk, and wild rose, with relict juniper forests in remote pockets. The climate is cold and arid, with annual precipitation ranging from roughly 200 to 900 millimeters, about 90 percent of it falling as snow, and extreme topographic relief where river channels below 2,000 meters sit beneath massifs exceeding 8,000 meters. Its flagship species is the woolly flying squirrel, and its rich community of wild sheep and goats, including Marco Polo sheep, argali, markhor, urial, and ibex, supports the snow leopard, with protection afforded by parks such as Hemis, Khunjerab, and Deosai. Hardy native ornamentals here include the showy larkspur Delphinium cashmerianum, shrubby cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), and Rosa webbiana.
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
Zones 4b-11b
+5.0°F d’ici 2070
55,325 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3
Sources et citations
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Plotwright. (n.d.). Sulaiman Range alpine meadows (Sulaiman Range alpine meadows). Retrieved 2026, June 16, from https://plotwright.garden/regions/resolve-766
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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
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Identifiant RESOLVE
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Palier NNH
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