Appearance
''Clematis vitalba'' is a climbing shrub with branched, grooved stems, deciduous leaves, and scented greeny-white flowers with fluffy underlying sepals. The many fruits formed in each inflorescence have long silky appendages which, seen together, give the characteristic appearance of ''Old Man's beard''. The grooves along the stems of ''C. vitalba'' can easily be felt when handling the plant.The flowers of this species are eaten by the larvae of moths including The V-Pug and Double-striped Pug and the leaves by Willow Beauty.*Reproductive organs:
⤷ * Inflorescence type: biparous cyme
⤷ * Sex: hermaphrodite
⤷ * Type of pollination: entomophilous
⤷ Seed:
⤷ * Type of fruit: achene
⤷ * Dissemination: With the wind
⤷ Habitat and distribution:
⤷ * Type of habitat: Mid-European shrubberies, mountainsides, in moderately eutrophic regions
⤷ * Distribution: Holarctic
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