Spreading subshrubs. Leaves pinnate, waxy blue. Leaflets with 4-8 ovate to roundish leaflets to 8 cm long, sometimes with a few lobes and with small spiny tips. Flowers urn-shaped, 2-3 cm long and narrowing at the mouth, scarlet or carmine; summer to autumn.

SW North America

A major parent of some large-flowering hybrids including C. 'Etoile Beauty' and C. 'Gravetye Beauty'.

Source: Gubbins, B.; Spencer, R. (1997). Clematis. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.