The stems can go black and bark-like, neighbour has 1, maybe due to lack of water/too much sun. Mine (pics below) are in dappled shade. Neighbour's is in full sun and has black stems
Billericay - Essex
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Looks like a Thalictrum to me but the bark description was maybe a bit misleading. I had a double purple one years ago and the stems were very dark - it did get quite a bit of sun so perhaps Pete's spot on about that. I wouldn't have called it bark though - slightly woody looking, yes. Different areas and conditions again perhaps
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Not all clematis are climbers - there are what are known as 'herbaceous clematis'
http://www.taylorsclematis.co.uk/clematis-herbaceous-clematis/index2.html
but I can't tell how big the flowers in your picture are ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pete8 is right, that's Thalictrum delavayi.
Ok, probably not clematis then - photographs can be so deceiving ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This really does have a trunk and bark does it? stiff? woody?
I can't enlarge the photos and have a good look but what I can see looks remarkably like the thalictrum that Pete suggested
In the sticks near Peterborough
Fairly stiff and it has definite bark.
Def Thalictrum delavayi from the pics.
The stems can go black and bark-like, neighbour has 1, maybe due to lack of water/too much sun. Mine (pics below) are in dappled shade. Neighbour's is in full sun and has black stems
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thanks very much everybody. I think Pete8 is right. Mine grows in full sun on a rocky slope. It can get a lot of wind.
Looks like a Thalictrum to me but the bark description was maybe a bit misleading. I had a double purple one years ago and the stems were very dark - it did get quite a bit of sun so perhaps Pete's spot on about that. I wouldn't have called it bark though - slightly woody looking, yes. Different areas and conditions again perhaps
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...