Clematis hirsutissima |
Clematis albicoma |
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Douglas' clematis, hairy clematis, leatherflower, sugar bowls, vaseflower |
erect mountain clematis, white-hair leather-flower |
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Stems | erect, not viny, 1.5-6.5 dm, hirsute (sometimes sparsely so in var. hirsutissima) or densely short, soft-pubescent to nearly glabrous. |
erect, not viny, 2-4(-6) dm, pubescent or pilose to ± tomentose or hirsute. |
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Leaves | blade 2-3-pinnate; leaflets often deeply 2-several-lobed, if lobed than lateral lobes usually small and distinctly narrower than central portion, leaflets or lobes linear to lanceolate, 1-6 × 0.05-1.5 cm, thin, not prominently reticulate; surfaces sparsely to densely silky-hirsute, not glaucous. |
blade elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, unlobed, 3.5-8(-10) × 1.5-5(-6.5) cm, thin, not conspicuously reticulate; surfaces abaxially glabrous to sparsely (rarely more densely) villous on veins, not glaucous. |
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Inflorescences | terminal, flowers solitary. |
terminal, flowers solitary; bracts absent. |
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Flowers | broadly cylindric to urn-shaped; sepals very dark violet-blue or rarely pink or white, oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-4.5 cm, margins narrowly expanded distally, 0.5-2 mm wide, thin, distally ± crisped, tomentose, tips obtuse to acute, slightly spreading, abaxially usually densely hirsute, occasionally moderately so. |
narrowly urn-shaped; sepals purplish, yellowish toward tips, oblong-lanceolate, (1.1-)1.4-3 cm, margins not expanded or less than 1 mm wide, thin, not crispate, tomentose, tips obtuse, spreading to recurved, abaxially silky- to woolly-pubescent. |
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Achenes | bodies densely long-pubescent; beak 4-9 cm, plumose. |
bodies pilose; beak white to pale yellow, (1.5-)2-4(-4.5) cm, plumose. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Clematis hirsutissima |
Clematis albicoma |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | |||||
Habitat | Shale barrens | |||||
Elevation | 300-800 m (1000-2600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; OK; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY
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VA; WV |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The varieties of Clematis hirsutissima, although highly dissimilar in their extreme forms, intergrade extensively in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Clematis albicoma is known only from shale barrens predominantly developed from the Upper Devonian Brallier Formation in nine counties of western Virginia and adjacent West Virginia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Viorna | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Viorna | ||||
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Synonyms | Coriflora hirsutissima | |||||
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 385. (1814) | Wherry: J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 21: 198. (1931) | ||||
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