(also known as Old man's beard
and Traveller's Joy
) is a shrub of the Ranunculaceae
is a climbing shrub with branched stems
leaves, and scented greeny-white flowers with fluffy underlying sepals
. The fruits have an overlying silky appendage lengthwise on the plant.
The flowers of this species are eaten by the larvae of moths including The V-Pug and Double-striped Pug and the leaves by Willow Beauty.
- Reproductive organs:
- Type of fruit: achene
- Dissemination: With the wind
- Habitat and distribution:
- Type of habitat: Mid-European shrubberies, mountainsides, in moderately eutrophic regions
- Distribution: Holarctic
In New Zealand it is declared an "unwanted organism" and it cannot be sold, propagated or distributed. It is a threat to native plants since it grows vigorously and forms a canopy which smothers all other plants.