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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Caragana''
| image = Caragana pygmaea2.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Caragana pygmaea'' foliage and flowers
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fabales]]
| familia = [[Fabaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Faboideae]]
| genus = '''''Caragana'''''
| genus_authority = [[Philipp Conrad Fabricius|Fabr.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Caragana''''' is a genus of about 80 species of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Fabaceae]], native to [[Asia]] and eastern [[Europe]].

They are [[shrub]]s or small [[tree]]s growing 1-6 m (3-20 ft) tall. They have even-pinnate [[leaf|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 [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species including [[Dark Dagger]].

;Selected species
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*''[[Caragana ambigua]]'' Stocks
*''[[Caragana arborescens]]'' Lam.
*''[[Caragana aurantiaca]]'' Koehne
*''[[Caragana boisii]]'' C.K.Schneid.
*''[[Caragana brachyantha]]'' Rech.f.
*''[[Caragana brevifolia]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana brevispina]]'' Royle ex Benth.
*''[[Caragana bungei]]'' Ledeb.
*''[[Caragana camilli-schneideri]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana conferta]]'' Benth.
*''[[Caragana decorticans]]'' Hemsl.
*''[[Caragana densa]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana erinacea]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana franchetiana]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana frutex]]'' (L.) K.Koch
*''[[Caragana gerardiana]]'' Royle ex Benth.
*''[[Caragana grandiflora]]'' DC.
*''[[Caragana jubata]]'' (Pall.) Poir.
*''[[Caragana korshinskii]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana leucophloea]]'' Pojark.
|
*''[[Caragana leveillei]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana manshurica]]'' (Kom.) Kom.
*''[[Caragana microphylla]]'' Lam.
*''[[Caragana pleiophylla]]'' (Regel) Pojark.
*''[[Caragana polourensis]]'' Franch.
*''[[Caragana pruinosa]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana pygmaea]]'' (L.) DC.
*''[[Caragana roborovskyi]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana rosea]]'' Turcz. ex Kom.
*''[[Caragana sinica]]'' (Buc'hoz) Rehder
*''[[Caragana sophoraelia]]'' Tausch
*''[[Caragana spinosa]]'' (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.
*''[[Caragana stenophylla]]'' Pojark.
*''[[Caragana tangutica]]'' Maxim. ex Kom.
*''[[Caragana tibetica]]'' Maxim. ex Kom.
*''[[Caragana tragacanthoides]]'' (Pall.) Poir.
*''[[Caragana turkestanica]]'' Kom.
*''[[Caragana ulicina]]'' Stocks
*''[[Caragana versicolor]]'' Benth.
|}

==References==
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=105589 Flora of Pakistan: ''Caragana'']
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?2061 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Caragana'']
* [http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?va=caragana Merriam-Webster Unabridged - Caragana entry]

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