UBC Botanical Garden

Common name: clematis

Family: Ranunculaceae subfam. Ranunculoideae (buttercup family)

Distribution: w Sichuan (China)

Hardiness: -23.3 to -17.8 °C

Life form: Climber, Liana, or Vine

Description: Leaflet blades 3--8 cm. Flowers 4--8 cm in diam. Pedicel 8--20 cm. Sepals 2--4 × 1.2--2.5 cm, abaxially densely appressed puberulous near margin but with a glabrescent band to 8 mm wide, apex usually emarginate. Anthers linear to narrowly oblong, 2.4--3.2(--4) mm, apex minutely apiculate. Ovaries glabrous. Achenes glabrous; persistent style to 6 cm.

Leaf Persistence: Deciduous