Clematis fusca
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Clematis fusca' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Clematis acutangula
- Clematis aethusifolia
- Clematis afoliata
- Clematis akebioides
- Clematis alpina
- Clematis apiifolia
- 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 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 semi-herbaceous climber 8 or 9 ft high, stems angled, downy when young. Leaves pinnate, 4 to 8 in. long, and composed mostly of five or seven leaflets, which are ovate with a rounded or heart-shaped base, and often long, tapering points, not toothed; glabrous or slightly downy beneath. Flowers solitary on stout stalks, which are 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, and thickly covered with reddish-brown hairs. The flower has the pitcher shape of the Viorna group, the sepals being 3⁄4 to 1 in. long, the points recurved; outside they are reddish brown, woolly. Seed-vessels with tails about 11⁄4 in. long, plumed with yellowish-brown, silky hairs.
Native of N.E. Asia, from Asiatic Russia through Manchuria to the Kurile Islands. It is an interesting but not very ornamental plant, distinct in its group, because of the very short hairy flower-stalks, and the hairiness generally of the flower. It grows very well, and produces abundant seed.