Objective:To review the development history of the field of Bougainvillea Comm.ex Juss.plants environmental adaptability,and to summarize future research directions.Methods:The litera-ture from 1992 to 2023 in CNKI database was used as the original data,and CiteSpace software was used to carry out quantitative visualization analysis.Besides,researchs from 6 related fields on environ-mental adaptability in WoS core databases were summarized further.Results:The research on the envi-ronmental adaptability of Bougainvillea plants in China was started early,and papers published number was increasing,mainly in academic journals,dissertations,standards and achievements.The main re-search institutions and authors were focused on South China and Southwest China,but there was a trend of expansion to multi-regional.The relevant cooperation was mainly based on regional or content similarity.Drought,low-temperature and application site were focused in research.Conclusion:Fur-ther research should be carried out in the aspects of multi-factor combination,practical expansion of improving adaptability,and the mechanism of environmental adaptability under the application of mod-ern molecular technology.