Italian leather flower
Clematis viticella L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.8 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Ranunculaceae
Also called Purple clematis
Formerly Anemone viticella, Clematis baccata, Clematis lugubris, Clematis pulchella, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Europe to W. Syria and N. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, violetRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Czech
- plamének vlašský
- Welsh
- barf-yr-hen-ŵr borffor
- German
- Italienische Waldrebe
- Finnish
- viinikärhö
- French
- Clématite bleue, clématite fausse-vigne
- Dutch
- italiaanse clematis, Italiaanse clematis
- Chinese
- 南欧铁线莲
- Slovenian
- južni srobot
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Clematis viticella (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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