Clematis vitalba (also known as old man’s beard and traveler’s joy) is a shrub of the family Ranunculaceae.
Clematis vitalba is a climbing shrub with branched, grooved stems, deciduous leaves, and scented greeny-white flowers with fluffy underlying sepals. The many fruits formed in each inflorescence have long silky appendages which, seen together, give the characteristic appearance of an old man’s beard. The grooves along the stems of C. vitalba can easily be felt when handling the plant.