Scientific Name: Clematis armandii
Common Name: evergreen clematis
Family Name: Ranunculaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 3 - 5m x 2 - 3m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Climbing
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Arbors or trellis, Screening, Spring interest, Winter interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Opposite, Leathery, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Lanceolate, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Mar-Apr
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Evergreen vine; leaves leathery, trifoliate, leaflets lanceolate, most blades 13-19(-25)cm long x 3-5(-9)cm wide, petiolules 1-3(-6)cm long, petioles 5-9cm long (pr longer as tendrils); flowers early spring, 4-5(-7) white petal-like sepals.