What is Clematis vitalba?
{{Italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Clematis vitalba'' | image = Clematis-vitalba-Waldrebe(Samenstand).jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = The silky appendages of the fruits | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Ranunculales]] | familia = [[Ranunculaceae]] | genus = ''[[Clematis]]'' | species = '''''C. vitalba''''' | binomial = ''Clematis vitalba'' | binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] (1753) }} [[File:Clematis vitalba MHNT.BOT.2006.70.1.jpg|thumb|''Clematis vitalba'']] '''Old man’s beard''' (the [[taxonomy|scientific name]] is ''Clematis vitalba'') is a fast growing [[vine]] that covers and strangles [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s. To kill the tree or shrub, it covers them and does not let them get any [[light]] from the [[sun]] that it needs to grow. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Ranunculales]]