Clematis morefieldii 25/10 Restock suits a plant that has

suits a plant that has pared everything down: fine leaves

and a graceful native in its own right

The finest plants often arrive by exactly this kind of roundabout

of pure white bloom that arrives in mid to late summer when little else among the shrubs is flowering

variable species

Clematis morefieldii 25/10 Restock suits a plant that hasClematis morefieldii, Morefield's leather flower, is one of the rarest of the native clematis, a delicate climbing vine known in the wild from only a small pocket of limestone country around Huntsville, Alabama, and just into Tennessee. Like the other leather flowers, this species trades broad, flat blooms for small, nodding, urn shaped flowers, here a soft, downy pink, their sepal tips curling back at the rim. The stems and leaves carry a fine coat