Clematis flammulaL.

fragrant clematis

WFO wfo-0000609903 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clematis flammula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-14 / obs. 188279433
Clematis flammula, photographed by Naturalista
fig. b Naturalista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167828239
Clematis flammula, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159946954
Clematis flammula, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160066766
Clematis flammula, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159586297
Clematis flammula, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158872284
Clematis flammula, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158881462
Clematis flammula, photographed by Josip Skejo
fig. h Josip Skejo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157737824

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis flammula is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Pakistan, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanIranLebanon-SyriaPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyePakistanAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Clematis flammula, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 293 in flower of 496 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Clematis flammula 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. 293 of 496 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 11 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 flammula E.H.L.Krause
  • Clematis canaliculata Lag.
  • Clematis cespitosa Scop.
  • Clematis diversifolia Gllib.
  • Clematis flammula var. sancti-marini Pamp.
  • Clematis fragrans Ten.
  • Clematis maritima L.
  • Clematis pallasii J.F.Gmel.
  • Clematis rubella Pers.
  • Clematis suaveolens Salisb.
  • Meclatis sibirica Spach

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.