Clematis apiifolia

Clematis apiifolia, the parsley-leaved virgin's-bower or October clematis, is a vigorous deciduous woody climber in the Ranunculaceae family native to China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, where it grows along forest margins, thickets, and rocky slopes. Stems are slender, twining or scrambling, and may reach 4 to 5 metres in length, climbing by means of bent petioles. The leaves are opposite and pinnate with three coarsely toothed and shallowly lobed leaflets superficially resembling those of parsley, hence the specific epithet. From late summer into autumn the plant produces large axillary and terminal panicles of small fragrant flowers; each measures about two centimetres across with four creamy-white spreading sepals and a central tuft of yellowish stamens, the petals being absent as is typical of the genus. Fruits are achenes with long, silky, plumose styles that mass in feathery clusters into winter.