Clematis stansSiebold & Zucc.

WFO wfo-0000610701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Clematis stans, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-24 / obs. 91918678
Clematis stans, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90852690
Clematis stans, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52394291
Clematis stans, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91918816
Clematis stans, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90853113
Clematis stans, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. f WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101881589
Clematis stans, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. g WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101882548
Clematis stans, photographed by Daniel J. Layton
fig. h Daniel J. Layton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48431523

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Clematis stans is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Clematis stans, 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
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 7 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 austrojaponensis Ohwi
  • Clematis heracleifolia subsp. savatieri (Decne.) Kuntze
  • Clematis heracleifolia subsp. stans (Siebold & Zucc.) Kuntze
  • Clematis heracleifolia var. kousabotan (Decne.) Kuntze
  • Clematis heracleifolia var. savatieroides Kuntze
  • Clematis kousabotan Decne.
  • Clematis savatieri Decne.

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.

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.