''Dodartia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Mazaceae Mazaceae is a family of plants in the order Lamiales. The family was described by James L. Reveal in 2011. Genera in this family were most recently previously included in Phrymaceae and in older classifications were placed in Scrophulariaceae. G ...

. It has only one currently accepted species, ''Dodartia orientalis'', native to Ukraine, Russia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Altai, northern China and Mongolia. A weedy perennial, it is eaten by

saiga antelope The saiga antelope (, ''Saiga tatarica''), or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in t ...

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{{Taxonbar, from1=Q8561435, from2=Q17757415 Mazaceae Monotypic Lamiales genera Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus