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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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The news of the arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that clambered over the trellis at his window.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
From without came the pleasant murmur of bees and many lazier insects floating over the gorgeous flower beds, resting for a while on the clematis which had made the piazza a blaze of purple splendour.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
Sometimes they would work on the side porch where the clematis and woodbine shaded them from the hot sun.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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