| Scientific Name: | Clematis vitalba |
| Common Name: | traveller's joy |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Invasive plant, Vine - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Green, Jun-Sep |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems up to 4m in length, becoming very woody; leaves opposite, compound with 5(-7) lance-shaped, leaflets, 5-8cm long x 3-5cm wide, entire to coarsely toothed or lobed, +/- petiole tendrils; flowers lemon-yellow, nodding, with 4(-6) hairy petal-like sepals (bell-shaped at first and then split as the petals spread), about 50 stamens and 20 pistils; achenes oval to 5mm long with attractive duck down-like tails 2-3.5cm long. Winter ID: twigs ridged along length and across nodes; petioles remain, tendrils; buds opposite, ovoid, scales pointy. | |