Clematis campaniflora
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Clematis campaniflora' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Clematis acutangula
- Clematis aethusifolia
- Clematis afoliata
- Clematis akebioides
- Clematis alpina
- Clematis apiifolia
- Clematis armandii
- Clematis × aromatica
- 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 deciduous climber, growing 10 to 20 ft high, very vigorous; stems slender, slightly downy when young. Leaves composed normally of fifteen or twenty-one leaflets (that is, five or seven sets of three each), but irregular. Leaflets not toothed, but sometimes lobed, variable in shape, narrow-lanceolate, ovate and oval, up to 3 in. long, ultimately glabrous. Flowers solitary or several together at the end of a downy stalk 2 to 3 in. long, nodding, produced in July and August. Sepals four, woolly, oblong, pointed with the points recurved, 3⁄4 in. long, half expanded; white tinged with violet. Seed-vessels roundish ovate, terminated by a slightly downy style less than 1⁄3 in. long.
Native of Portugal; introduced in 1810. A hardy species, very thriving in cultivation. The flowers are scarcely bell-shaped, as implied by the name, but rather bowl-shaped. The species is an ally of C. viticella.