Clematis tangutica
Golden clematis
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Light: Full sun or light shade.
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Plant habit and use: Thin, wiry vine. Grow up on trellises
or as a spreading ground cover.
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Leaves: Compound leaves with small leaflets. Bright green
during the growing season, turning reddish in the fall.
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Flowers: Bright yellow flowers in mid-summer through fall.
Flowers are formed on the new stems that grow during the year.
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Fruits: Beautiful feathery seeds head are produced from the
flowers. They start looking like tiny fireworks on the vine and then
become cottony.
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Maintenance: Vine may need some help to get started on a trellis.
Cut vine back to the ground in spring.
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Other: Seeds are viable, so a few plants may sprout up near the
original vine.
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Page creators:
Virginia I. Lohr
and Caroline H. Pearson-Mims
Dept. of Hort &
LA, Washington St. Univ.
E-mail: pearson@wsu.edu
Page updated: June 9, 2001