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Parthenocissus inserta (A.Kern.) Fritsch

False Virginia Creeper, False Virginia Creeper (EN), False Virginia-Creeper, Gewöhnliche Jungfernrebe

Climate known 66 photographs
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Summary

Parthenocissus inserta, also known as thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, woodbine, or grape woodbine, is a woody vine native to North America. Contact with it may cause dermatitis.

Text from Wikipedia, “Parthenocissus inserta”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Parthenocissus

Parthenocissus, is a genus of tendril climbing plants in the grape family, Vitaceae. It contains about 12 species native to the Himalaya, eastern Asia and North America. Several are grown for ornamental use, notably P. henryana, P. quinquefolia and P. tricuspidata.

Text from Wikipedia, “Parthenocissus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Vitaceae
Described by
(A.Kern.) Fritsch
Native to
British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan +42
Wild records
188 in range· 58 open

At a glance

Warmest month
27°C
Jul, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
910mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 99 mm (CHELSA)
Light
9–41DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (April to November in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 910 mm a year, wettest June at 99 mm, driest February at 50 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 9 to 41 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -22.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Ampelopsis inserta Kerner; Ampelopsis macrophylla (Rehder) Rehder; Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. laciniata A.Gray ex Planch.; Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. vitacea Knerr; Cissus porphyrophylla Lindl. ex J.Dix and 26 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (April to November in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (690 mm of 910 mm) takes 8 months, April to November. Mean temperature moves 26.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to May.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 910 mm a year, wettest June at 99 mm, driest February at 50 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

910 mm a year at the habitat, 690 mm of it April to November. Wettest month June at 99 mm, driest February at 50 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 434 mm to 1232 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 9 to 41 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 9 to 41 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 8, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -22.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -22.5 °C, the absolute minimum -32.4 °C, about 143 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -8.5 °C in January (across the envelope cells -14.1 °C to -3.5 °C), warmest day 27.4 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -22.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 62% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from -1 °C in Jan to 27 °C in Jul; mean night from -9 °C in Jan to 18 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 910 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 174 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -32.4 °C and the 99th-percentile day 30.9 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-40°-20°20°40°frost30.9° 99th-percentile day (undated)-32.4° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125mm rainDLI 9–41RH 55–62 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 174 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-1 / -5–61 / -2–87 / 3–1314 / 10–1820 / 17–2325 / 22–2827 / 25–3126 / 24–3022 / 19–2515 / 12–197 / 5–111 / -2–6
Night °C-9 / -14–-4-8 / -12–-2-3 / -6–13 / 1–59 / 6–1114 / 11–1718 / 15–2017 / 15–1913 / 10–157 / 4–101 / -3–3-6 / -10–-2
Rain mm54 / 18–8750 / 17–8656 / 28–10177 / 32–10390 / 43–10999 / 40–12195 / 30–11490 / 27–11590 / 26–10975 / 31–11574 / 22–10760 / 22–103
DLI12 / 10–1918 / 16–2526 / 24–3432 / 31–4037 / 35–4541 / 38–4740 / 38–4734 / 33–4227 / 24–3519 / 16–2612 / 10–199 / 8–16
RH %62 / 54–6560 / 53–6357 / 52–6055 / 50–5755 / 51–5957 / 50–6058 / 49–6059 / 50–6159 / 50–6158 / 51–6160 / 53–6362 / 54–65

Each figure is the median across the 174 grid cells holding the 180 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 921:2202 (43.925, -69.875). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -32.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -22.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 174 distinct grid cells holding the 180 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 921:2202 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 44.00_-70.000, lapse-corrected -52 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 11 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBritish Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Mexico Northeast· introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Ukraine, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Kazakhstan
Kew's description“climber” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker43.931, -79.445 · in the densest population, 73 records (39% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 188 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 58 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1306 km away. 1517 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 188 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Patrick Hacker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); no rights reserved · CC0 (4).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Parthenocissus inserta, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Seasonal Cycle of Phloem Development in Woody Vines
Jerry D. Davis, Ray F. Evert (1970) · Botanical Gazette
THE TENDRIL OF PARTHENOCISSUS INSERTA: DETERMINATION AND DEVELOPMENT
W. F. Millington (1966) · American Journal of Botany
Stereoisomeric Characterization of Tartaric Acid Produced during l-Ascorbic Acid Metabolism in Plants
George J. Wagner, Joan C. Yang, Frank A. Loewus (1975) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Patterns of invasive plant species distribution in the Upper Volga basin
Е. А. Борисова (2011) · Russian Journal of Biological Invasions
The Tendril of Parthenocissus inserta: Determination and Development
W. F. Millington (1966) · American Journal of Botany
NOTE FLORISTICHE PIEMONTESI N. 13-47
Alberto Selvaggi, Adriano Soldano, Marziano Pascale (2006) · Open Research (University of Surrey)
New species for the Bulgarian flora
Jerzy Zieliński, Ana Petrova, Rayna Natcheva (2012) · Phytologia Balcanica
ADDITIONS TO THE VASCULAR PLANT FLORA OF THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA (RUSSIA): CONTRIBUTION OF THE iNATURALIST PLATFORM
Anatoliy A. Khapugin, Tatyana B. Silaeva, Ekaterina FEDASHEVA, Maria TYAPUKHINA (2021) · Contributii Botanice
Naturalized alien plants in Penza Region
V. M. Vasjukov, Lyubov Alexandrovna Novikova (2017) · Samara Journal of Science
NOMENCLATURE OF THE THICKET CREEPER, PARTHENOCISSUS INSERTA (VITACEAE)
James S. Pringle (2010) · University of Michigan Library Repository

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Parthenocissus 2 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 205 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.