The flowers of this native clematis were known to the early Maori as "stars of the forest". In early spring large panicles of pure white flowers would show up on trees high in the forest ...

It belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family – it always surprises me how something like Clematis paniculata belongs to the buttercup group, but then again, our plant taxonomy ...

KARE 11's Laura Betker says she and her buddy Bobby Jensen expanded their knowledge about the beautiful vining flower clematis during a recent visit to Donahue’s Greenhouses in Faribault.