Plant Type
Vine, Ground Cover, Shrub
Lifespan
Perennial, Woody
Flower
Flowers bloom in late summer (August) to fall (October) and are produced in terminal branching panicles of 3-12 flowers. Each monoecious flower has four pure white, narrow, petal-like sepals, approximately 50 stamens, and 5-10 pistils with long, plumose styles
Fruit
Plume-like seed heads (clusters of 5-6 fruits connected at the heads and each having a long white tail). The large achenes are ovoid and flattened in shape; they are thinly covered with appressed silky hairs.
Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Clematis
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