Vitis amurensis (Amur grape)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vitis amurensis, photographed by Nina Filippova — fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-03 / obs. 157717467

Vitis amurensis, photographed by Eugene Popov — fig. e Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92782130

Vitis amurensis, photographed by Oleg Kosterin — fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95323018

Vitis amurensis, photographed by Repina Tatyana — fig. g Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76816376

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Vitis amurensis, 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
Amur	AMU	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central	CHN
China Southeast	CHS
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Japan	JAP
Khabarovsk	KHA
Korea	KOR
Manchuria	CHM
Primorye	PRM

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 323 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-25.7 °C	-15.1 °C	-5.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.3 °C	23.8 °C	28.0 °C
Annual rainfall	556 mm	785 mm	1,112 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	12 mm	46 mm	106 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 323 research-grade observations of Vitis amurensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 10 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.

Vitis amurensis f. hermaphrodita J.Y.Li
Vitis amurensis var. genuina Skvortsov
Vitis amurensis var. shiragae (Makino) Ohwi
Vitis amurensis var. yanshanensis D.Z.Lu & H.P.Liang
Vitis choii Hatus.
Vitis flexuosa var. choii (Hatus.) T.B.Lee
Vitis shiragae Makino
Vitis vinifera f. amurensis (Rupr.) Regel
Vitis vinifera var. amurensis (Rupr.) Regel
Vitis vulpina var. amurensis (Rupr.) Regel

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.

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.