Clematis lasiantha |
Clematis addisonii |
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chaparral clematis, pipestem, pipestem clematis |
Addison Brown's clematis, Addison Brown's leather-flower, Addison's leather-flower, Addison's virgin's-bower |
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Stems | scrambling to climbing, 3-4 m. Leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, largest leaflets usually 3-lobed, 1.5-6 × 1.5-5 cm; terminal leaflet occasionally 3-cleft, margins usually toothed; surfaces glabrous or sparsely silky. |
usually ascending to erect, occasionally somewhat viny, 0.6-1 m, glabrous. |
Leaves | all simple, blade often 1-pinnate on distal and middle leaves on vigorous plants 4-13 × 2-9.5 cm; leaflets 2-6 plus additional tendril-like terminal leaflet, ovate, unlobed, 1.5-6 × 1-4.5 cm, not prominently reticulate; surfaces abaxially glabrous and glaucous. |
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Inflorescences | axillary, flowers solitary, rarely 3-flowered cymes. |
terminal and axillary, flowers solitary. |
Flowers | unisexual; pedicel (including peduncle) stout, 3.5-11 cm; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, ovate or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 10-21 mm, abaxially and adaxially pilose; stamens 50-100; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent or 50-100; pistils 75-100. |
ovoid to broadly urn-shaped; sepals purple or reddish purple, whitish toward tips, ovate-lanceolate, 1.2-2.5 cm, margins not expanded, thick, not crispate, tomentose, tips acute, spreading, abaxially glabrous. |
Achenes | asymmetric-ovate, not broadly orbiculate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm, not conspicuously rimmed, glabrous; beak 3.5-5.5 cm. |
bodies puberulent; beak 2.5-3.5 cm, plumose. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Clematis lasiantha |
Clematis addisonii |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring (Jan–Jun). | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Chaparral, open woodlands | Calcareous, dry woods, glades, rock outcrops |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 200-600 m (700-2000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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VA |
Discussion | Clematis lasiantha is common in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada of California. The Shasta used pounded stems or chewed or burned roots of Clematis lasiantha medicinally in the treatment of colds (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Clematis addisonii is known only from Botetourt, Montgomery, Roanoke, and Rockbridge counties in western Virginia. Reports of this infrequent species from other southeastern states have been based on misidentified specimens (W. M. Dennis 1976). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Clematis | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Viorna |
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Synonyms | Viorna addisonii | |
Name authority | Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 9. (1838) | Britton: Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 2: 28. (1890) |
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