Book  (2018)  Page(s) 467.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis vitalba L.
Spreading in southern and central Europe, North America and western Asia. Seen often in deciduous forests in northwestern Anatolia, and areas with mediterranean climate...

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 13.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis vitalba L.
Common names: Old man’s beard, traveller’s joy.
Distinguishing features: Clematis vitalba is a large smothering vine that grows to 20 m tall. Unlike indigenous clematis, it is deciduous and its leaves have 5 leaflets. It is also poisonous. Its cream coloured flowers are 2–3 cm wide with hairy sepals bent back from the centre and a central cluster of stamens. The flowers are hermaphrodite and bear long fluffy persistent styles when in fruit. It spreads by seeds and adventitious roots. C. vitalba was introduced to New Zealand from Europe as an ornamental in the 1920s. Millions of dollars have since been spent trying to eradicate it and repair the damage it has done to forests. The strongly ribbed stems must be destroyed or they will re-sprout.
Habitat requirements: Common on the edges of second-growth forest, along hedges and in trees.
Flowers: December–May
Fruit: March–October
Regional status: ‘Unwanted Organism’ under the Biosecurity Act 1993: it is illegal to propagate,
sell or distribute C. vitalba in New Zealand. An invasive pest plant.

Book  (2005)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 33.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ranunculaceae (Düğünçiçeğigiller), Clematis vitalba (Duman asması; Peçek), Traveller's Joy; Old Man's Beard. 4 petals. Northern and Southwest Turkey. Forsts, woodlands, shrubs, maquis. 0-1500m. June-August. Perennial woody plant.

Book  (Oct 2001)  Page(s) 383.  

Book  (Apr 1998)  Page(s) 9.  
 
C. vitalba
... the only species native to the British Isles... [it] grows particularly rampantly on the chalk downs in Southern England...

Book  (11 Nov 1996)  Page(s) 13.  Includes photo(s).
 
...embellishes trees and shrubs with a coating of white bloom...

Website/Catalog  (1931)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Indigenous Clematis....Clematis vitalba, likes sun and drought, shade tolerant, for natural garden sections, decorative foliage, decorative fruit, German vine, wild form, strong climber, white, 100/130 cm, June ...1,25 Mark [10] 11,25  [100] 100,--

Website/Catalog  (1919)  Page(s) 66.  
 
Clematis Vitalba. Tall climber, greenish white, very popular....10 pieces M 25.-, 100 pieces M 200.-

Book  (1916)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 473.  
 
[Theophrastus Book V, 6.]
They say also a very good fire-stick is made of the wood which some call traveller's joy; this is a tree like the vine or the 'wild wine,' which, like these, climbs up trees. 

Magazine  (Feb 1914)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Les C. Vitalba, flammula, recta, etc., semés le 1^er décembre 1882, ont germé en trois mois ; les mêmes espèces, semées en avril de la même année, ont mis onze mois pour se développer.