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Clematis 'Killdeer'

Small, semi-double, broadly bell-shaped, nodding or drooping flowers; deep blue with a narrow, paler margin, whole sepal flushing purple in cool weather. Staminodes sepaloid, flattening back towards the sepals as they mature, 4 cm long, slightly paler than sepals, very downy. Filaments creamy green, downy; anthers short, downy, yellow. Fruit-heads persistent.

So named because a pair of killdeer, Charadrius vociferus, nested under the original plant in 2007.

Group:	Atragene group
Approximate height: The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	3.0 - 4.0 metres
Flowering period(s): Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Apr May Jun \| Aug Sep Oct
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection (FRCC)
Country of origin:	USA
Date raised: r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	rn2007 i2012
Parentage: (s) = seed parent	Chance seedling; parentage unknown
Further detail:	Tepals: 4; 5cm long, 1.5cm wide, gappy, ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, margins curling back at maturity to give sepal a shape "like a canoe's prow".