They are perennial plant that grows at the pool of mountain district and grasslands. (Perennial plant takes several years to grow). The stalk at the bottom part becomes composition which remains still there till winter. The leaf looks like the shape of the one of Paeonia suffruticosa. This is why they are named ‘Clematis stans’. Many flowers bloom downward aside of the leaves or at the top of stalk. The flower is bell-shaped about 1 to 2 cm long with no flower petals, and blooms with 4 sepals rolling-back. The flower is pale purplish-tingled color and bears paraphyllium outside of the calyx. They have a stamen a male flower and a female flower, and each of them blossom in separate trees. The longer tube is a male flower and the shorter one is a female flower. The leaf consists three as one named ‘trifoliate compound leaf’, with a long stalk growing alternative to stem. Lobules (Shoyo: each one that is leaf-shaped and leaf like one consisting of more than a few leaves) is egged-shaped about 5 to 10 cm long, has a sharp tip with the edge shallow and divided into 3. After flowers wither, they bear the seeds about 3 to 3.5 cm long at the top which flower style grows long.

●Season　　September to about October
●Height　　about 50cm to 1 m
●Place　　Mt.Inari, Ura-Takao,Oku-Takao