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Clematis gracilifolia Rehd. & Wils.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Clematis gracilifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/clematis/clematis-gracilifolia/). Accessed 2024-11-09.

Glossary

appressed
Lying flat against an object.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
imparipinnate
Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.
alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
trifoliolate
With three leaflets.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Clematis gracilifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/clematis/clematis-gracilifolia/). Accessed 2024-11-09.

A deciduous climber up to 12 ft high; stems greyish, ribbed, clothed when young with appressed down. Leaves ternate or pinnate, consisting of three, five, or seven leaflets. Leaflets mostly ovate in main outline, but coarsely toothed or three-lobed, 12 to 112 in. long; both stalk and blade slightly downy. Flowers white, 112 to 2 in. wide, borne usually two to four together from the joints, each one on a downy slender stalk 112 to 3 in. long. Sepals four, spreading, obovate, downy outside. Seed-vessel glabrous, with a feathery style nearly 1 in. long.

Native of W. China, where it was first found by Wilson in the province of Szechwan, afterwards by Purdom in Kansu, and by Forrest in Yunnan. Introduced by Wilson in 1910. It belongs to the same group as C. chrysocoma and montana (both of which have uniformly trifoliolate leaves) and is a graceful, free-blooming, hardy clematis. Flowers in June.