Small, bell-shaped or urn-shaped, drooping flowers, outside lavender to violet-blue or red-purple tending to cream at the tips, inside pale green or yellow. Pale yellow anthers on white filaments. Introduced into the UK from from eastern U.S.A. in 1730.

Approximate height:	2.0 - 2.5 metres
Flowering period(s):	May Jun Jul Aug Sep
Aspect:	Sun or semi-shade
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Country of origin:	USA
Parentage:	Species
Other name(s):	viorna var flaccida; viorna flaccida; northern leather-flower. Wrongly: texensis 'Viorna'
Further detail:  Tepals: 4; (1.5-) 2.5-4cm long, ovate-lanceolate, thick and fleshy, tip recurved, margin cream Click here for the text of an IClS article about this clematis Database entry: 556