| Scientific Name: | Clematis alpina |
| Common Name: | alpine clematis |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Vine - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Espalier, Screening, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Violet, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, White, Dark-red, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Climbing deciduous vine; leaves pinnately compound, 3-5 leaflets, most 4-7cm long x 2-4cm wide, margin lobed, petiole tendrils; flowers with 4 or 8 petal-like violet sepals in spring. Winter ID: tendrils, part of petiole often stays attached, pubescent twigs and buds, buds opposite, ovoid, 1-3mm long on horizontally ridged nodes. | |