Clematis cirrhosaL.

WFO wfo-0000609696 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by carnifex
fig. a carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-10 / obs. 200558920
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184466081
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. c Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182551911
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110946445
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110946265
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110946170
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110121598
Clematis cirrhosa, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108689660

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis cirrhosa is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Baleares, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeCorseGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Clematis cirrhosa, 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
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 143 in flower of 210 examined

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Clematis cirrhosa 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. 143 of 210 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 30 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.

  • Atragene balearica Pers.
  • Atragene cirrhosa Pers.
  • Cheiropsis balearica (Rich.) Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Cheiropsis cirrhosa Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Cheiropsis elegans Spach
  • Cheiropsis semitriloba (Lag.) Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Clematis balearica Rich.
  • Clematis calycina [Soland.]
  • Clematis calyculata C.K.Schneid.
  • Clematis cirrhosa f. balearica (Rich.) Maire
  • Clematis cirrhosa f. gigantiflora Kuntze
  • Clematis cirrhosa f. micrantha Maire
  • Clematis cirrhosa f. obtusifolia Kuntze
  • Clematis cirrhosa f. semitriloba (Lag.) Ball
  • Clematis cirrhosa f. subdentata Kuntze
  • Clematis cirrhosa subsp. atava Kuntze
  • Clematis cirrhosa subsp. balearica (Rich.) Kuntze
  • Clematis cirrhosa subsp. semitriloba (Lag.) Kuntze
  • Clematis cirrhosa var. angustifolia Loudon
  • Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica (Rich.) Willk.
  • Clematis cirrhosa var. barnadesii Pau
  • Clematis cirrhosa var. bibracteata W.T.Wang
  • Clematis cirrhosa var. multifida Moris
  • Clematis cirrhosa var. pedicellata DC.

and 6 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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