Clematis lasiantha |
Clematis drummondii |
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chaparral clematis, pipestem, pipestem clematis |
Barbas de chivato, Drummond's clematis, old man's beard |
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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. |
scrambling to climbing with tendril-like petioles and leaf-rachises, 4-5 m or more. |
Leaf | blade odd-pinnate, usually 5-foliolate; leaflets deltate to ovate, strongly 3-parted to 3-cleft, proximal leaflets sometimes 3-cleft, 1.5-5.5 × 0.5-4.5 cm, membranous to leathery; segments ovate, deltate, or linear, margins dentate; surfaces pilose, abaxially more densely so. |
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Inflorescences | axillary, flowers solitary, rarely 3-flowered cymes. |
usually axillary, 3-12-flowered simple cymes or compound with central axis or flowers solitary or paired. |
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. |
unisexual; pedicel slender, (1.1-)1.5-7 cm; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, oblong or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, (7-)9-13(-15) mm, abaxially and adaxially pubescent; stamens 40-90; filments glabrous; staminodes 17-35 when present; pistils 35-90. |
Achenes | asymmetric-ovate, not broadly orbiculate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm, not conspicuously rimmed, glabrous; beak 3.5-5.5 cm. |
elliptic to ovate, 3-5 × l.5-2.5 mm, rimmed, short-silky; beak 4-9 cm. |
2n | = 16. |
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Clematis lasiantha |
Clematis drummondii |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring (Jan–Jun). | Flowering spring–fall (Mar–Oct). |
Habitat | Chaparral, open woodlands | Chaparral, xeric scrub, oak scrub, and grasslands, pastures, fencerows, and other secondary sites, often along streams or on slopes |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 0-2200 m (0-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CA; CO; NM; OK; TX; n Mexico
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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.) |
As with many other members of the subgenus, the leaves of Clematis drummondii are reputedly used in a poultice to treat irritations of the skin in humans and other animals. Clematis coahuilensis D. J. Keil is found in central and north-central Mexico in habitats similar to those of C. drummondii; it is distinguished by ovate, entire to 3-lobed, leathery leaflets. (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. Clematis |
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Synonyms | C. nervata | |
Name authority | Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 9. (1838) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 7. (1838) |
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