| General Description | This plant is a vining, woody, deciduous plant that is hardy in the Canadian landscape. It is very easy to grow and maintain through it’s lifespan. |
| ID Characteristic | Plant has compound trifoliate leaves, with entire margins that are glabrous and matte in appearance. The stems and leaves also have a light layer of pubescence on the plant material. Flowers have 6-8 elliptical shaped tepals, with petaloid stamens in the centre. |
| Shape | Vertical, slender growing, vine. |
| Landscape | This plant is used in the urban home garden as a specimen-accent plant. As a climber, it can be trained to climb trellises, walls, lampposts, and other stationary vertical elements. It’s also perfect for smaller gardens, as the plant grows vertically, and not horizontally outwards. |
| Propagation | propagation of Clematis x jackmanii ‘Evipo038 Crystal Fountain’ can be achieved through seeds, cuttings, and layering. |
| Cultivation | Clematis x jackmanii ‘Evipo038 Crystal Fountain’ grows in fertile, relatively moist, well-draining soil. It prefers a full sun to part shade spot. The plant grows well with the vines, flowers in the sun, and root zone in shade. |
| Pests | The plant is potentially susceptible to wilt/ stem rot, rust, leaf spots, aphids, vine weevils, slugs or snails, earwigs, and spider mites. This particular cultivar has been noted to be more resistant to powdery mildew. It also tolerant of deer, rabbits, and grows around Black Walnut. |
| Notable Specimens | The Missouri Botanical Garden previously had a specimen, but according
to the accession data, the plant is dead. |
| Habitat | Horticultural origin. |
| Bark/Stem Description | The young wood is yellow-green in colour and has smooth textured
bark with light pubescence, the older stems are a grey-orange/brown and have rough textured bark. The internodes are cylindrical in shape, stems are usually 100cm from the base of the plant to the top of the plant. The stems are 3-4mm in diameter. Climbing Clematis climb by their leaf petioles, by twisting around the object to move themselves forward. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description | The size of the flower bud is 35mm in length, 8-10mm wide. The colour starts as a yellow-green at ¼ open. The peduncle has a smooth texture, is 90-120mm in length, and is a medium green colour. |
| Leaf Description | The leaves of Clematis x jackmanii ‘Evipo038 Crystal Fountain’ are deciduous, trifoliate, compound in form, and 120mm in the length by 120mm in width. The leaves are abundant across the whole vine, from the base to the top of the plant. They are elliptical in shape with an entire leaf margin, with a rounded base, and are also occasionally cordate leaves. The apex of the leaf is acute to cirrhose. The texture of leaves is glabrous and fairly matte. This plant’s terminal leaflets are 60mm in length by 35mm in width. |
| Flower Description | The flowers (once open) on this cultivar are 120mm in diameter and 20-30mm in depth. They are completely flat, open, facing outwards. The centre of the flowers have petaloid stamens. The colour of the flowers on Clematis x jackmanii is a violet blue colour, it typically has 6-8 tepals, and they are elliptical in shape. It blooms in May through September. It attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds as its pollinators. |
| Fruit Description | This cultivar produces whorled, plume-like seed heads, with dry fruits with achene seeds that scatter by the wind once they are ready. |
| Colour Description | The colours of the plant vary from green, to violet-blue, to brown. The
leaves emerge green in the spring. Once autumn occurs, the leaves turn yellow, then turning brown once it gets cold. The flowers start in bud form as a yellow-green colour, and then emerge to be a lavender, violet-blue colour. |
| Texture Description | The texture of the slender, woody stems of the plant is slightly fuzzy, along with the leaves. The flowers have soft, thin petals, and are very easy to damage. |