Clematis morefieldii 25/10 Restock each a slim reddish-purple tube

each a slim reddish-purple tube opening to five pale-blue lobes

which is uncommon at this size

suits a plant that has pared everything down: fine leaves

The clone earned a Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal on merit

Clematis morefieldii 25/10 Restock each a slim reddish-purple tubeClematis morefieldii, Morefield's leather flower, is one of the rarest of the native clematis, a delicate climbing vine known in the wild from only a small pocket of limestone country around Huntsville, Alabama, and just into Tennessee. Like the other leather flowers, this species trades broad, flat blooms for small, nodding, urn shaped flowers, here a soft, downy pink, their sepal tips curling back at the rim. The stems and leaves carry a fine coat