Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Japanese Creeper)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe — fig. a Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204163062

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Jack — fig. b Jack, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200899845

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Pavel Kacl — fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193859037

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning — fig. d Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195440807

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by 葉子 — fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204393894

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Saryu Mae 前朝琉 — fig. f Saryu Mae 前朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182426972

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Tristan Haab — fig. g Tristan Haab, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155572724

Parthenocissus tricuspidata, photographed by Lucian Vazquez — fig. h Lucian Vazquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133704674

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Parthenocissus tricuspidata, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China North-Central	CHN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Japan	JAP
Korea	KOR
Manchuria	CHM
Primorye	PRM
Taiwan	TAI
Vietnam	VIE	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.

Also published as 31 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.

Acer nikoense (Miq.) Maxim.
Ampelopsis haponica Anon.
Ampelopsis lowii H.Low ex H.P.
Ampelopsis minima Anon.
Ampelopsis tricuspidata Siebold & Zucc.
Ampelopsis tricuspidata f. veitchii (Laurentius) Schelle
Ampelopsis veitchii Laurentius
Ampelopsis veitchii unranked robusta J.R.Duncan & V.C.Davies
Ampelopsis veitchii var. purpurea L.Nagy
Cissus thunbergii Siebold & Zucc.
Cissus tricuspidata Siebold & Zucc.
Cissus veitchii (Laurentius) Carrière
Crula nikoense (Maxim.) Nieuwl.
Crula nikoensis Nieuwl.
Negundo nikoense (Maxim.) Nichols.
Negundo nikoense Miq.
Parthenocissus thunbergii (Nakai) Nakai
Parthenocissus tricuspidata f. lowii (H.Low ex H.P.) Rehder
Parthenocissus tricuspidata f. purpurea (L.Nagy) Rehder
Parthenocissus tricuspidata f. veitchii (Laurentius) Rehder
Parthenocissus veitchii (Laurentius) Graebn.
Psedera thunbergii Nakai
Psedera tricuspidata (Siebold & Zucc.) Rehder
Quinaria tricuspidata (Siebold & Zucc.) Koehne

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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