Wild Clematis

Clematis ligusticifolia

Pollinator plant

Growing it

When	Flowers July to August
Type	vine
Sun	Full sun, partial shade
Water	Low, medium
Soil	pH 6–8
Hardiness	zone 4–8
Mature height	6 m
Mature spread	1.5 m
Spacing	1 m
Years to maturity	3
Bloom	Jul–Aug
Flower colour	White read from a published flora
In bloom	July August
Native to	AB, SK

feather-compound leaves about 8 cm long in opposite pairs

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

35 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 3 herbarium specimens and 117 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 174 records, high confidence
Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 132 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 29 records, high confidence
Northern Continental Divide south AB: 29 records, high confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

18 documented relationships.

nectar for

Agapostemon texanus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena amphibola Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena prunorum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Colletes kincaidii Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Confusing Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Gray Hairstreak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Great Golden Digger Wasp Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Halictus confusus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Halictus farinosus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Lasioglossum albohirtum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Lasioglossum incompletum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Lasioglossum nevadense Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Lasioglossum sandhousiellum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Perdita nevadensis Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Buying it

About $15–$35 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (vine default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate