Clematis Diversifolia Group

Origin: Cultivars are derived directly or indirectly from Clematis integrifolia or related species, for at least one parent.
Habit: Hardy semi-climbing, deciduous.
Leaf: Simple, ternate or pinnate, herbaceous, petioled. Leaflets simple, sessile or petioluled, base of side leaflets usually distinctly oblique, margin entire or sometimes lobed.
Inflorescence: Solitary or a few flowered dichasial cyme. On young shoots usually with a terminal flower first.
Bracts: Present, leaflike and usually simple.
Flower: Bisexual, campanulate to spreading, nodding to horizontal or more or less upright, 4-12 cm across, bud usually nodding or sometimes upright with a short nodding stage.
Tepals: 4 6, white to red-purple or violet-blue.
Stamens: Filaments hairy.
Flowering time: Late spring and summer.
Seed tail: Either plumose or not, seedhead not persistant.
Zone: 4-11 (EU & USDA zones).
Hard pruning.
Planting depth: About 5 cm deeper as in the pot, so slightly deeper.
Roots: Fleshy.
Leaves in seedlings: Opposite.



ref: Wim Snoeijer (2008) Clematis Cultivar Group Classification with Identifying Key and Diagrams.

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