Description | A herbaceous non climbing Clematis with flowers white on the outside and blue in the interior. |
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Pronunciation | (KLEM-uh-tiss) |
Plant Type | Vines |
Hardiness Zone | (3)4-9 |
Sunlight | mostly sunny, part sun, shaded |
Moisture | average, moist |
Soil & Site | average, moist |
Flowers | white on the outside, opening with recurved petals of dark lavender-blue |
Leaves | green, 3 part |
Dimensions | 3 feet tall |
Maintenance | Pruning group 3: prune in the spring right above the ground or above a bud |
Cultivar Origin | A hybrid Clematis created by Bill Barnes. He crossed the Japanese C. stans and the Chinese C. heracleifolia, |
Author's Notes | This Clematis is quite different than the large flowering vine plants most people are use too. The flowers look more like a hyacinth. The plant is a small to medium herbaceous shrub. |
Notes & Reference | #84-An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis (Mary Toomey, Everett Leeds), #122-Clematis (Christopher Lloyd), #199-Clematis (Andromeda Matz, Krister Cedergren) |