Climbing Hydrangea                hi-DRAN-je-a a-NOM-a-la pet-i-o-LA-ris

• Deciduous vine, 60-80 ft (18-24 m), climbing, clinging by root-like holdfasts.  Leaves opposite, simple, 5-10 cm, broad ovate to ovate oval, dark green above, lighter below.   Flowers white, 4 petaled, in flat-topped clusters, outer flowers (sepals) sterile and showy (similar to Viburnum plicatum).
• Sun to part shade, requires rich, well-drained, moist soil (Dirr, 1998, p. 434, "The best vine!")
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4      Native to Japan and China, introduced 1865.
• Hydrangea: "waterjar", referring to its cup shaped fruit;    anomala abnormal;    petiolaris: conspicuous petioles
• Corvallis: house at 9th St. and Jackson at Jackson entrance to garden; north side of main entrance of the Court House