Clematis alpina(L.) Mill.

alpine clematissiberian clematis

WFO wfo-0000609451 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clematis alpina, photographed by Leonardo Ancillotto
fig. a Leonardo Ancillotto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205152561
Clematis alpina, photographed by Philipp
fig. b Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203784051
Clematis alpina, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. c Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203863236
Clematis alpina, photographed by Philipp
fig. d Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200946000
Clematis alpina, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. e Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200988074
Clematis alpina, photographed by Katrin Ellmaier
fig. f Katrin Ellmaier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200749465
Clematis alpina, photographed by nbasargin
fig. g nbasargin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200841967
Clematis alpina, photographed by Elias
fig. h Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198042196

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Native range 44 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis alpina is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Pakistan, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiSakhalinTadzhikistanTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaPakistanAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwitzerlandUkraine Korea
Native distribution of Clematis alpina, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Sakhalin SAK
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 462 in flower of 622 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Clematis alpina observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 462 of 622 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 65 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anemone atragene E.H.L.Krause
  • Atragene alpina L.
  • Atragene alpina subsp. sibirica (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Atragene alpina var. ochotensis (Pall.) Regel & Tiling
  • Atragene alpina var. sibirica (L.) Regel & Tiling
  • Atragene austriaca Scop.
  • Atragene clematides Crantz
  • Atragene iliensis (Y.S.Hou & W.H.Hou) Serov & Grabovsk.
  • Atragene ochotensis Pall.
  • Atragene ochotensis subsp. caerulescens Kom.
  • Atragene platysepala Trautv. & C.A.Mey.
  • Atragene sibirica L.
  • Atragene speciosa Weinm.
  • Atragene speciosa subsp. saxatilis Kuvaev & Sonnikova
  • Atragene tianschanica Pavlov
  • Atragene wenderothii Schltdl.
  • Clematis alpina f. fauriei (Boiss.) Tateishi
  • Clematis alpina subsp. normalis Kuntze
  • Clematis alpina subsp. wenderothii (Schltdl.) Kuntze
  • Clematis alpina var. alba Davis
  • Clematis alpina var. albobarbata Kuntze
  • Clematis alpina var. altaica Kuntze
  • Clematis alpina var. angustisepala Kuntze
  • Clematis alpina var. bilateralis Kuntze

and 41 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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