A presumed hybrid between C. integrifolia and C. flammula, and only woody at ground-level, dying back every winter. It grows 4 to 6 ft high, the stems slender, the leaves pinnate and mostly composed of five leaflets, which are oval or broadly ovate, unequal at the base, not toothed, and 1 to 21⁄2 in. long. Flowers 1 to 11⁄2 in. across, dark bluish violet, very fragrant, and produced on a slightly downy stalk about 2 in. long; sepals four, oblong, spreading fully, downy at the margins. Seed-vessels silky-hairy. It flowers from July to September, and is a valuable plant for grouping in the herbaceous border. Its origin is not precisely known, but the first place in which it was recorded as being in cultivation was the Royal Gardens of Sans Souci, about the middle of the nineteenth century. It is not a climber.
Clematis × aromatica Lenné & Koch
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Clematis acutangula Hook. f. & Thoms.
- Clematis aethusifolia Turcz.
- Clematis afoliata Buchan.
- Clematis akebioides (Maxim.) Hort. ex Veitch
- Clematis alpina (L.) Mill.
- Clematis apiifolia DC.
- Clematis armandii Franch.
- Clematis campaniflora Brot.
- Clematis chinensis Retz.
- Clematis chrysocoma Franch.
- Clematis cirrhosa L.
- Clematis connata DC.
- Clematis crispa L.
- Clematis × durandii O. Kuntze
- Clematis × eriostemon Decne.
- Clematis fargesii Franch.
- Clematis finetiana Lévi. & Van.
- Clematis flammula L.
- Clematis florida Thunb.
- Clematis fusca Turcz.
- Clematis gracilifolia Rehd. & Wils.
- Clematis grata Wall.
- Clematis heracleifolia DC.
- Clematis integrifolia L.
- Clematis × jackmanii T. Moore
- Clematis × jouiniana Schneid.
- Clematis lanuginosa Lindl.
- Clematis lasiandra Maxim.
- Clematis ligusticifolia Torr. & Gr.
- Clematis macropetala Ledeb.
- Clematis maximowicziana Fr. & Sav.
- Clematis meyeniana Walp.
- Clematis montana DC.
- Clematis nannophylla Maxim.
- Clematis napaulensis DC.
- Clematis orientalis L.
- Clematis paniculata Gmel.
- Clematis patens Morr. & Decne.
- Clematis phlebantha L. H. J. Williams
- Clematis pitcheri Torr. & Gray
- Clematis quinquefoliata Hutchins.
- Clematis ranunculoides Franch.
- Clematis rehderiana Craib
- Clematis serratifolia Rehd.
- Clematis songarica Bunge
- Clematis stans Sieb. & Zucc.
- Clematis tangutica (Maxim.) Korshinsky
- Clematis texensis Buckl.
- Clematis tibetana Kuntze
- Clematis uncinata Benth.
- Clematis × vedrariensis Vilm.
- Clematis verticillaris DC.Bell Rue
- Clematis viorna L.
- Clematis virginiana L.
- Clematis vitalba L.
- Clematis viticella L.