Clematis nannophylla Maxim.

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

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'Clematis nannophylla' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/clematis/clematis-nannophylla/). Accessed 2024-03-19.

Glossary

appressed
Lying flat against an object.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Clematis nannophylla' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/clematis/clematis-nannophylla/). Accessed 2024-03-19.

A deciduous shrub of erect, dense habit, growing 4 ft or more high and wide, young shoots slender, strongly ribbed, appressed grey-hairy. Leaves variable, 34 to 212 in. long, elegantly cut into usually three lobes or deeply, pinnately toothed, the parts narrow and sharply pointed; glabrous or nearly so. Flowers borne at the end of the branches, mostly solitary but sometimes in threes or, very rarely, in pairs. Each flower is 34 to 114 in. wide, the four ovate or oval sepals each 13 to 12 in. wide with a brown centre and golden-yellow margins; style-clusters i in. across. Bot. Mag., t. 9641.

Native of China, introduced from the province of Kansu by R. Farrer in 1914–15. It is a charming plant both in its elegantly cut leaves and the pretty, unusual colouring of its flowers. It frequently occurs wild under arid conditions. This species has always been rare in cultivation and now seems to have been lost altogether.