clematis
The Clematis genus of climbing plants includes more than two hundred members distributed across most of the world's temperate regions. They look very effective trained through trellising, entwined with other plants, or along walls like this one at Cotehele, a stately home beside the River Tamar in Cornwall.
Any of a group of temperate woody climbing plants with colourful showy flowers. They belong to the buttercup family. (Genus Clematis, family Ranunculaceae.)
| Rock clematis (Clematis verticillaris) grows in woods and thickets in most of shady eastern North America. |
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