noun
- Dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America.
- synonyms: Spanish moss, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides
- Vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn.
- synonyms: traveler's joy, traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba
- Common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers.
- synonyms: virgin's bower, devil's darning needle, Clematis virginiana
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