Clematis campestrisA.St.-Hil.

WFO wfo-0000609645 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clematis campestris, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. a Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 195914690

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis campestris is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile North, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestArgentina SouthBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralChile NorthParaguayPeruUruguay
Native distribution of Clematis campestris, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Argentina South AGS
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Chile North CLN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Uruguay URU

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 130 in flower of 145 examined

Proportion of examined Clematis campestris in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 11 14 79% 52% to 92%
Feb 8 10 80% 49% to 94%
Mar 6 7 86% 49% to 97%
Apr 3 5 60% 23% to 88%
May 0 0 too few examined
Jun 1 3 too few examined
Jul 3 3 too few examined
Aug 6 6 100% 61% to 100%
Sep 16 17 94% 73% to 99%
Oct 42 46 91% 80% to 97%
Nov 26 26 100% 87% to 100%
Dec 8 8 100% 68% to 100%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Clematis campestris 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. 130 of 145 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 21 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 bangii Rusby
  • Clematis campestris var. malacophylla W.T.Wang
  • Clematis campestris var. mendocina (Phil.) Hauman & Irigoyen
  • Clematis denticulata Vell.
  • Clematis dioica subsp. campestris (A.St.-Hil.) Kuntze
  • Clematis dioica var. angustissima Kuntze
  • Clematis dioica var. denticulata (Vell.) Kuntze
  • Clematis dioica var. hilarii (Spreng.) Kuntze
  • Clematis dioica var. mendocina (Phil.) Kuntze
  • Clematis hilarii Spreng.
  • Clematis hilarii var. guaranitida (A.St.-Hil.) A.St.-Hil. & Tul.
  • Clematis hilarii var. montevidensis (Spreng.) Speg.
  • Clematis hilarii var. triloba Speg.
  • Clematis maldonadensis Larrañaga
  • Clematis mendocina Phil.
  • Clematis montevidensis Spreng.
  • Clematis montevidensis var. denticulata (Vell.) Bacigalupo
  • Clematis triloba A.St.-Hil.
  • Clematis triloba var. guaranitica A.St.-Hil.
  • Clematis uruguayensis Arechav.
  • Clematis virginiana var. campestris (A.St.-Hil.) Macloskie

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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