old man's beard, n.
common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
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Clematis virginiana devil's darning needle old man's beard virgin's bower
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vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
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Clematis vitalba old man's beard traveler's joy traveller's joy
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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
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Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides black moss long moss old man's beard
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