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Clematis

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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. 1 2 "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)