Virgin's Bower is a lovely and beautiful native vine that does not "stick" to surfaces but wraps and twines as it climbs.  It is one of the few vines that will flower in deep shade, although it prefers partial sun and grows naturally in moist thickets and woodlands.
 
     Its showy, white, fragrant blooms fill out by mid-summer and are followed by silver-white seed heads on the female plants.  Songbirds use the seedheads as nesting materials, and butterflies, hummingbirds, native bees, wasps and other pollinators are attracted to the flowers.  Virgin's Bower is a larval host to the Clematis Clearwing moth. 
 
     Virgin's Bower responds well to late winter and early spring pruning, and it can be pruned to within 18 inches of the ground.  It can be used along a trellis or spilling over shrubs, or sprawling along the ground.
 
Fun fact: An extract from the stems was once used as a hallucinogen.