Image from Flore des Serres (1852)
Image from L'Illustration Horticole 1854
Clematis 'Sophia'
Deep lilac-purple flowers shading to a greeny-yellow down the bar. Violet stamens. This form is believed lost to cultivation.
This is a Japanese cultivar that was sent to Siebold in Leiden by Textor, a plant hunter. The name is in honour of the Dutch Queen Sophie of Würtenberg.
In the plate from L'Illustration Horticole 1854, 'Sophia' is the left-hand flower.
| Group: | Early large-flowered group |
| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Date raised: | b1852 |
| Parentage: | Cultivated form of patens |
| Other name(s): | patens var sophia; sophiae; patens 'Sophia' |
| Further detail: | Tepals: 6-9; narrowly oblong, pointed Leaves: ternate |