Clematis fuscaTurcz.

WFO wfo-0000609949 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Clematis fusca, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-26 / obs. 91282337
Clematis fusca, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91776084
Clematis fusca, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91192247
Clematis fusca, photographed by Николай Соболев
fig. d Николай Соболев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117496450
Clematis fusca, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. e Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50818468
Clematis fusca, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. f Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49027695
Clematis fusca, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. g Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46355601
Clematis fusca, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. h Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45213977

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Clematis fusca is native: Amur, China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, Yakutiya AmurChina North-CentralInner MongoliaJapanKamchatkaKhabarovskMagadanManchuriaPrimoryeSakhalinYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Clematis fusca, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Yakutiya YAK

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.

Also published as 20 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 ajanensis Kuntze
  • Clematis coreana H.Lév.
  • Clematis flabellata Nakai
  • Clematis fusca f. obtusifoliola Kuntze
  • Clematis fusca subsp. violacea (Maxim.) Kitag.
  • Clematis fusca var. ajanensis Regel & Tiling
  • Clematis fusca var. amurensis (Kuntze) M.Johnson
  • Clematis fusca var. fusca
  • Clematis fusca var. glabricalyx Nakai
  • Clematis fusca var. kamtschatica (Bong.) Regel & Tiling
  • Clematis fusca var. mandshurica Regel
  • Clematis fusca var. tomentosa Nakai
  • Clematis fusca var. violacea Maxim.
  • Clematis fusca var. yezoensis Miyabe
  • Clematis ianthina Koehne
  • Clematis ianthina var. mandshurica (Regel) Nakai
  • Clematis ianthina var. violacea (Maxim.) Nakai
  • Clematis kamtschatica Bong.
  • Clematis mandschurensis hort. ex K.Koch
  • Viorna fusca (Turcz.) Kom.

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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