Periploca graecaL.

silkvine

WFO wfo-0000392081 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Periploca graeca, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. a Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-05 / obs. 167427517
Periploca graeca, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. b Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76664017
Periploca graeca, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. c Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74857883
Periploca graeca, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. d Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73625223
Periploca graeca, photographed by maribang
fig. e maribang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 40867659
Periploca graeca, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. f Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100098883
Periploca graeca, photographed by katunchik
fig. g katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6131682
Periploca graeca, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. h Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29383190

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Periploca graeca is native: East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Periploca graeca, 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
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE

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 3 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.

  • Asclepias dioscoridis Fraas
  • Periploca laeta Salisb.
  • Periploca maculata Moench

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.

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