Aristolochia clematitis
Ecology
A scrambling or trailing perennial herb found as an escape or a relic of cultivation in waste and rough places, often by old abbeys or nunneries, and in churchyards, woods and on grassy banks. It spreads by rhizomes. Lowland.
Status
Trends
This species was grown for its medicinal properties. The date of introduction is unknown, but it was recorded in the wild from Cambridgeshire in 1685. It is now rarely cultivated, and is gradually declining.
World Distribution
Probably native in S.E. Europe, N. Turkey and the Caucasus, but so widely naturalised in temperate Europe that its native range is obscured.
Atlas Change Index: -0.82
JNCC Designations
Atlas text references
Atlas (169a)
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1984. Flora dels Països Catalans, I. Introducció. Licopodiàcies-Capparàcies.
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
Jalas & Suominen (1976)