Book  (2018)  Page(s) 466.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis flammula L.
...Mediterranean, southern Europe, northern Africa, Turkey and western Syria. Grows naturally in Istanbul, Çanakkale, between Antalya and Kaş and in the Amanos mountains in Hatay...blooms July-September...

Website/Catalog  (29 Jul 2010)  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis flammula L.
Semi-evergreen or deciduous climber with star-shaped, heavily-scented white flowers, 3cm across, freely produced in panicle-like cymes in summer and autumn, followed by silky seed heads.  To 6m.  [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].

Horticultural & Botanical History
Cultivated in England since 1596.  [PD].  Saint-Hilaire pl.392/1831.

History at Camden Park
Listed in all published catalogues [T.321/1843].

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 15.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis flammula L.
Common name: Fragrant virgin’s bower
Distinguishing features: Perennial, deciduous woody climber, stem terete, weak ribbing. Leaves very sparsely hairy, green and thick, 2-pinnate, 8–15 × 3–12 cm, ovate to lanceolate, cuneate to truncate at base, acute to obtuse; margin entire or 2–3 lobed; petiole glabrous, 4–5 cm long. Small white flowers 20–30 mm diameter with 4 sepals. Seeds hairy & compressed, 5–6 mm long.
Habitat: Mostly found scrambling in hedges and scrub.....Specimens have been collected from Wellington....and has been recorded as adventive but uncommon at the rest area on the Masterton to Eketahuna road near Mount Bruce....
Flowers: January–March.
Fruit: May
Regional status: Naturalised garden escape

Book  (Oct 2001)  Page(s) 189.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 186.  
 
Plant Introductions in the period 1500-1599
pr 1597 Clematis flammula S. Europe, N. Africa, W. Syria, Turkey.

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 161.  
 
C. flammula (meaning 'small flame') arrived from southern Europe before 1597 and is a small and dainty scrambler with heavily scented white flowers. John Gerard grew it and found that if you crush the leaves on a hot summer day and smell them 'it causes a smell and pain like a flame'. His name for it was Purging Periwinkle.

Book  (11 Oct 2000)  Page(s) 11.  
 
The species flammula... is perhaps the hardiest of the strong-scented clematis species that can be grown and flowered in northern British and European gardens...

Book  (Apr 1998)  Page(s) 7, 9.  
 
Page 7:
The scent produced by some species, such as C. recta from Central Europe and C. flammula from Southern Europe, is outstanding. Sadly, this strength of scent has not been bred into the large-flowered cultivars as yet...
Page 9:
C. flammula grows in southern Europe... in very dry, sunny locations, where it enjoyes the poor, free-draining soil...

Website/Catalog  (1924)  Page(s) 107.  
 
Clématite Flammula. Quantité de petites fl. blanches odorantes.

Magazine  (Nov 1919)  Page(s) 165.  
 
Association horticole lyonnaise Procès-verbal de l’Assemblée générale du DIMANCHE 21 SEPTEMBRE 1919...
M. Monachon, pépiniériste au camp de Sathonay (Ain) .... Clematis flammula, espèce vigoureuse que l’on trouve en abondance dans le midi de la France. De juillet à septembre, elle se couvre d’une multitude de petites fleurs blanches odorantes, le soir surtout : puis une Clématite à fleurs bleues, de bonne forme.