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Clematis
Clematis 'Nelly Moser'
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Faimily: Ranunculaceae
Subfaimily: Ranunculoideae
Tribe: Anemoneae
Genus: Clematis
L.[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms

Atragene L.
Coriflora Weber
Viorna Rchb.[1]

Clematis (KLEma-tis)[2] is a genus o aboot 300 species[3] within the buttercup faimily Ranunculaceae. Thair gairden hybrids hae been popular amang gairdeners,[4] beginnin wi Clematis × jackmanii, a gairden staundbi syne 1862; mair hybrid cultivars are bein produced constantly. Thay are mainly o Cheenese an Japanese origin. Maist species are kent as clematis in Inglis, while some are forby kent as traveller's joy, a name inventit for the sole Breetish native, C. vitalba, bi the yerbalist John Gerard; virgin's bower for C. viticella; auld man's beard, applee'd tae several wi prominent seedheads; an leather flouer or vase vine for the North American Clematis viorna.

References

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  1. a b "Genus: Clematis L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 20 December 2000. Archived frae the original on 17 Juin 2009. Retrieved 2 Februar 2011.
  2. Sunset Western Garden Book. 1995. pp. 606–7.
  3. Thare are more wild species of clematis even than of roses", Alice M. Coats remarks in Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Clematis".
  4. Bender, Steve, ed. (2004). "Clematis". The Southern Living Garden Book (2nd ed.). Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House. pp. 250–2. ISBN 0-376-03910-8. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)