Clematis aristataKer Gawl.

WFO wfo-0000609505 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clematis aristata, photographed by Dylan Wishart
fig. a Dylan Wishart, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205974801
Clematis aristata, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. b Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182834158
Clematis aristata, photographed by Ben Fisher
fig. c Ben Fisher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190277495
Clematis aristata, photographed by James K. Douch
fig. d James K. Douch, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177649052
Clematis aristata, photographed by yatesy
fig. e yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174088480
Clematis aristata, photographed by yatesy
fig. f yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176116849
Clematis aristata, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171335145
Clematis aristata, photographed by yatesy
fig. h yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174101920

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis aristata is native: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria New South WalesQueenslandSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoria
Native distribution of Clematis aristata, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC

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 173 in flower of 313 examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Clematis aristata 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. 173 of 313 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 25 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.

  • Clematis aristata f. oblongisepala Domin
  • Clematis aristata f. stenosepala Domin
  • Clematis aristata subsp. confertissima Kuntze
  • Clematis aristata subsp. gunniana Kuntze
  • Clematis aristata var. blanda (Hook.) Benth.
  • Clematis aristata var. breviappendiculata Kuntze
  • Clematis aristata var. browniana Domin
  • Clematis aristata var. coriacea (DC.) Benth.
  • Clematis aristata var. dennisae Guilf.
  • Clematis aristata var. gunniana (Kuntze) Domin
  • Clematis aristata var. integrifolia Domin
  • Clematis aristata var. longiappendiculata Kuntze
  • Clematis aristata var. longiseta F.M.Bailey
  • Clematis aristata var. minor Hook.f.
  • Clematis aristata var. normalis Domin
  • Clematis aristata var. occidentalis Benth.
  • Clematis aristata var. sanderi (Watts) Domin
  • Clematis blanda Hook.
  • Clematis cognata Steud.
  • Clematis coriacea DC.
  • Clematis discolor Steud. & Lehm.
  • Clematis elliptica Endl.
  • Clematis gilbertiana Turcz.
  • Clematis indivisa Steud.

and 1 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. 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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