Virgin's Bower Clematis
By Lise Fracalossi
Clematis virginiana
Native to: All New England
Life cycle: Perennial
Light: Full/Partial Sun
Soil Moisture: Medium-Wet to Medium
Height: 3-12’
Spread: 3-5’
Spacing: 3-4’
Blooms: July-September
Bloom Color: White
Natural Habitat: Woodland edges, wetlands, roadside ditches, and moist disturbed areas
Benefits: Deer/Rabbit Resistant, Attracts Bees, Attracts Butterflies, Host Plant (eg. clematis clearwing moth & 8 other species), Urban Environment, Compaction Tolerant, Low Maintenance
Pairs Well With: Nodding onion, three-lobed coneflower, Culver’s root, flowering raspberry, and heart-leaved Alexanders
“This vigorous twining vine will thrive on trellises and chainlink, producing textural, lobed leaves all season long and lovely, delicate masses of feathery flowers in the late season. This fast grower can naturalize as a groundcover, and will tolerate shade.”
–Native Plant Trust
“A lovely native vine with small white flowers that bloom profusely in the summer and attract many pollinating insects. Long silky seed heads are beautiful in the fall. Attractive dark green foliage on long thin rambling stems climbing up a fence, trellis, or large open shrub.”
–Wild Seed Project
