old man's beard

Noun

• common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers

• vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  virgin's bower , devil's darning needle , Clematis virginiana , traveler's joy , traveller's joy , Clematis vitalba , Spanish moss , black moss , long moss , Tillandsia usneoides