Clematis apiifolia
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Clematis apiifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Clematis acutangula
- Clematis aethusifolia
- Clematis afoliata
- Clematis akebioides
- Clematis alpina
- Clematis armandii
- Clematis × aromatica
- Clematis campaniflora
- Clematis chinensis
- Clematis chrysocoma
- Clematis cirrhosa
- Clematis connata
- Clematis crispa
- Clematis × durandii
- Clematis × eriostemon
- Clematis fargesii
- Clematis finetiana
- Clematis flammula
- Clematis florida
- Clematis fusca
- Clematis gracilifolia
- Clematis grata
- Clematis heracleifolia
- Clematis integrifolia
- Clematis × jackmanii
- Clematis × jouiniana
- Clematis lanuginosa
- Clematis lasiandra
- Clematis ligusticifolia
- Clematis macropetala
- Clematis maximowicziana
- Clematis meyeniana
- Clematis montana
- Clematis nannophylla
- Clematis napaulensis
- Clematis orientalis
- Clematis paniculata
- Clematis patens
- Clematis phlebantha
- Clematis pitcheri
- Clematis quinquefoliata
- Clematis ranunculoides
- Clematis rehderiana
- Clematis serratifolia
- Clematis songarica
- Clematis stans
- Clematis tangutica
- Clematis texensis
- Clematis tibetana
- Clematis uncinata
- Clematis × vedrariensis
- Clematis verticillaris
- Clematis viorna
- Clematis virginiana
- Clematis vitalba
- Clematis viticella
A vigorous, woody climber, deciduous, 12 to 15 ft high, with slightly downy, slender stems. Leaves mostly trifoliolate, but sometimes pinnate with the basal divisions trifoliolate; leaflets thin, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 3 in. long, heart-shaped to tapering at the base, deeply toothed, often three-lobed, nearly glabrous, except for hairs on the nerves beneath. Flowers dull white, 5⁄8 in. across, in axillary panicles 2 to 6 in. long, produced in September and October; sepals very downy outside, spreading; stamens glabrous. Seed-vessels with silky styles.
Native of China and Japan, cultivated at Kew for over seventy years. It is not one of the most attractive species, although a vigorous grower and flowering copiously. Allied to C. vitalba, it lacks the beauty of that species in fruit, at any rate in cultivation.