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Fallopia baldschuanica; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-09-22

Fallopia baldschuanica (Regel) Holub

Russian vine; Bukhara fleeceflower; Chinese fleecevine; Mile-a-minute-vine

Polygonaceae · Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan +1

No habitat climate
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Summary

Fallopia baldschuanica (syn. Polygonum baldschuanicum) is an Asian species of flowering plant in the knotweed family known by several common names, including Russian-vine, Bukhara fleeceflower, Chinese fleecevine, mile-a-minute and silver lace vine. It is native to the southern Asia west of the Himalayas and is growing wild in parts of Europe, Africa, and the United States as an introduced species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Fallopia baldschuanica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

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. 1 of the 2 in-range records is 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 it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan · introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Albania, Romania, Tunisia, Canary Is., Eritrea, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Colorado, Washington, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, California, Utah, New Mexico, Alabama, Virginia · 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).
Kew's description“liana” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 24 km away. 1207 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) guywallbanks, some rights reserved (CC BY); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (3); (c) Jon Mortin, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) IloveBugzzz, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Fallopia 4 in the reference

Fallopia aubertii Fallopia aubertii Polygonaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, hedera.baltica from Wrocław, PolandFallopia convolvulus Fallopia convolvulus Black bindweed Photo: CC0, author not statedFallopia dumetorum Fallopia dumetorum Copse-bindweed Photo: CC BY, Piotr PanekFallopia scandens Fallopia scandens Climbing false buckwheat Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Bilderdykia aubertii; Bilderdykia baldschuanica; Fagopyrum baldschuanicum; Polygonum aubertii; Polygonum baldschuanicum and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Fallopia aubertii: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

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The record

Family
Polygonaceae
Described by
(Regel) Holub
Native to
Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Wild records
2 in range · 1 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 37 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (18 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 19 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 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 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 125 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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