Nigel Cattlin / Traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba) flowering in hedgerow, Berkshire, England, UK. August.

Ernie Janes / Oldmans beard (Clematis vitalba) seedheads silhouetted at sunset, Norfolk, England, UK. January.

Colin Varndell / Traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba) flower. Portland, Dorset, England, UK. July.

Colin Varndell / Traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba) Dorset, UK, October.

Fabrice Cahez / Traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba), Vosges, France, September.

Nick Upton / Old man's beard, the seedheads of Wild clematis (Clematis vitalba) in a hedgerow, Wiltshire, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Traveller's joy / Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) flowers, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Fabrice Cahez / Frost on Old Man's Beard seedheads (Clematis vitalba) in winter, Vosges, France

Adrian Davies / Traveller's Joy / Old Man's Beard (Clematis vitalba) growing in hedgerow, UK, August

Wild Wonders of Europe / Benvie / Traveller's joy / Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) in flower with fly on one of the petals, Fliess, Naturpark Kaunergrat, Tirol, Austria, July 2008

Adrian Davies / Old man's beard (Traveller's joy) seeds {Clematis vitalba} Southern England, UK

John Waters / Traveller's Joy / Old Man's Beard {Clematis vitalba} in flower, Dorset, UK

Paul Harcourt Davies / Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) leaf changing colour in Autumn, Podere Montecucco, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. October.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) seed head, Umbria, Italy. September.

Nick Upton / Old man's beard, the seedheads of Wild clematis (Clematis vitalba) in a hedgerow, Wiltshire, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Old man's beard, the seedheads of Wild clematis (Clematis vitalba) and Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) berries in a hedgerow, Wiltshire, UK, September.

Niall Benvie / Wild clematis (Clematis vitalba) Larochemillay, France, September.

Niall Benvie / Wild clematis (Clematis vitalba) against white background, Burgundy, France, July.

Linda Pitkin / Traveller's-joy (Clematis vitalba) on bank of River Thames. Hampton Court, Richmond Upon Thames, England, UK. July.

Linda Pitkin / Traveller's-joy (Clematis vitalba), flowers and seed heads, Desborough Island, Surrey, England.

Ernie Janes / Old man's beard flowers (Clematis vitalba) Thornham Dunes, Norfolk, England, UK, August. August