WordNet
n. climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers [syn: purple virgin's bower, mountain clematis, Clematis verticillaris]
Usage examples of "purple clematis".
There was certainly nothing abhorrent about Penscombe that afternoon: the wind that shook her turret bedroom last night had dropped, while the little Beatriz Potter cottages, covered in velvety purple clematis, were white in the afternoon light.
The flagstone steps that led down the hill to Clete's place and my truck were lined with rosebushes and purple clematis.
Waving his hand, the Solamnic lad stilled Judyth's florid description of the purple clematis that scaled the western walls of Dargaard Keep.
Tucker sat on the side terrace where purple clematis wound up the white wicker trellis.
Over the walls of the house they climbed, mingling with purple clematis, jasmine, and sickly honeysuckle.
In sheltered spots the purple clematis still lingered, whilst the dahlias, brilliant of hue, seemed overbearing in their gorgeous insolence, flaunting their crudely colored petals against sober backgrounds of mellow leaves, or the dull, mossy tones of ancient, encircling walls.
Hazlewood took a seat facing the garden with its old red brick wall, on which a purple clematis was growing.
He turned and walked out through an archway of purple clematis blooms.