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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Ranunculaceae
Clematis vitalba

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 544 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Travellers joy.

Description:
Deciduous woody climber, leaves with 5 leaflets, imparipinnate; leaflets ovate, 3-10 cm long, acute or acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, dentate or entire, glabrous or slightly pubescent, more densely so on the veins.

Flowers in terminal and axillary panicles, c. 2 cm diam., bisexual, fragrant; perianth-segments oblong, c. 1 cm long, obtuse, greenish-white, with silky hairs above and below densely pubescent at the margin; staminodes absent; stamens glabrous; anthers 1-2 mm long, blunt.

Achenes dark-brown, ovoid, pubescent, with a style elongated to 3 cm, plumose almost to the tip.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1948) Drawings Brit. Pl. 1:pl. 1.

Distribution:  Grown as an ornamental in gardens; escaped and naturalised e.g. at Crafers.

S.Aust.: EP, SL.   Native of south, west and central Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Jan. — Feb.


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