Clematis: Clematis blooms, Everyday , 1 by ClematisGuru

ClematisGuru wrote:
hey lily love, i think you are as interested in the history of clems as i am. i embrace knowing about how they were discovered and etc.
ternifora ,or sweet auturm clem, is a species so it was not bred or hybridized. so nothing to revert back to.
it propagates true from seed, but sometimes the "wild" seedlings do have a slightly different shaped leaf the first couple of years, more elongated and usually with a line around the margin that can indicate a harmless disease called leaf miners. not sure if it is a bug or not and no time to look it up this morning. but it does not spread to your others and does not harm the seedling terniflora either. the reason the leaves look different is that it is seed grown not grown form a cutting like the ternifloras you buy!!!
there may be two wild forms, regular and robusta, but this is debated. but your terniflora is a terniflora...i know how different they can look (seedling plant vs cutting plant) as i have been saving and allowing some of the wild ones to flourish and i love them. her is a pic of one of my wild ones growing and blooming thru an evergreen tree that i am partial to. a large garden gives me the freedom to grow the species and let them naturalize and i am very grateful to have the space to do that. seedling ones are never or rartely sold due to the leaf miner condition and how long it takes to establish a viable plant.
lol and have a green, green day. hope you escape the storms. we are just north of the storm line as it looks right now.