Deciduous semi-woody climber. Stems reddish. Leaves pinnate. Leaflets ovate to lanceolate, lobed or divided. Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary, nodding; summer to autumn. Perianth segments 4, spreading, to 4 cm long, blue, purple, red or white. Styles eventually hairless in flower, eventually shortly feathery.
Mediterranean, W Asia
C. campaniflora Brotero from Portugal is similar but has green stems and bell-shaped flowers with vilet segments and styles that are hairy in flower.
C. ×triternata DC. (C. flammula × C. viticella) is a garden hybrid climber with simple or bipinnate leaves and entire leaflets. Flowers in branching terminal clusters. Perianth segments 6, lilac.
Source: (1997). Clematis. In: . 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.
Clematis viticella 'Kermesina'
Flowers deep red, stamens brown.
Flowers large, cream, edges lavender.
Clematis viticella 'Purpurea Plena Elegans'
Flowers in a double rosette, violet.
Clematis viticella 'Rubromarginata'
Flowers prolific; perianth segments white with red margins.
