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Clematis florida Thunb.

Asian virginsbower; Cream clematis

Ranunculaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

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Summary

Clematis florida, the Asian virginsbower, or passion flower clematis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Clematis florida", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Clematis

Clematis is a genus of about 380 species within the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Their garden hybrids and cultivars have been popular among gardeners, beginning with Clematis 'Jackmanii', a garden staple since 1862. More cultivars are being produced constantly, mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Clematis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Clematis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climbing perennial or subshrub”, “temperate”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Clematis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climbing perennial or subshrub”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 84 of the 85 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast · introduced: Japan, Korea · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.561, 114.381 · in the densest population, 51 records (60% of those in range)
Kew's description“climbing perennial or subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 85 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 27 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 730 km away. 30 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 84 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 85 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Fan Wen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Nina R, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Honmingjun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Clematis 112 in the reference

Clematis addisonii Clematis addisonii Addison Brown's clematis Photo: CC0, author not statedClematis aethusifolia Clematis aethusifolia Parsley-leaf clematis Photo: CC BY, zhangshenClematis afoliata Clematis afoliata Rush-stem clematis Photo: CC BY, Rock McLaren Clematis akebioides Ranunculaceae Clematis akoensis Clematis akoensis Ranunculaceae Photo: CC0, 葉子Clematis albicoma Clematis albicoma White-haired leather-flower Photo: CC BY, Alaina KrakowiakClematis alpina Clematis alpina Alpine Clematis Photo: CC0, author not statedClematis apiifolia Clematis apiifolia Three-leaf clematis Photo: CC BY, Timur KalininskyClematis aristata Clematis aristata Goat's-beard Photo: CC BY, Ian RainbowClematis armandii Clematis armandii Evergreen Clematis Photo: CC0, author not stated Clematis aureolata Ranunculaceae Clematis brachiata Clematis brachiata Traveler's-joy Photo: CC0, author not stated all 113 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Anemone japonica; Atragene florida; Atragene indica; Clematis anemonoides; Clematis bicolor and 23 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Clematis japonica (Houtt.) Makino is an older name of this species, not Clematis japonica, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
Thunb.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
85 in range · 27 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 8 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a herbarium, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 32 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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