Fragrant clematis
Clematis flammula
Family · Ranunculaceae · Poisonous
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The climber that fills southern hedges with a jasmine scent in August, and whose perfume misleads anyone who does not know: the sap burns skin just as effectively as its northern cousin's.
Scrubland · Walls and rocks · Roadsides and waste ground · Montado
Also known assweet-scented virgin's bower
How to tell it
Twice-divided leaves with small narrow leaflets, dark green. Clouds of small white flowers with four tepals and many stamens, strongly and sweetly scented. Silky plumes in autumn.
What it is confused with
Old man's beard
Clematis vitalba
Smell and leaflet: this smells of jasmine and has small twice-divided leaflets; old man's beard barely smells and has five larger leaflets. Neither is handled without need.
Open sheet →What it is for
None. Same protoanemonin, same blisters. The Spanish name muermera comes from an old veterinary use that consisted precisely of making sores on animals.