Portraits of Wildflowers

Clematis cloud

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A "cloud" of Clematis; click for more detail.

Clematis drummondii is a vine that’s fond of climbing on and over other plants, even to the point of covering them with a living—and for them smothering—cloud of fibers. In the case of what appears to be some Brazilian and therefore alien verbena poking up at the far left, so much the better.

© 2011 Steven Schwartzman

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