Clematis lasiantha |
Clematis viticella |
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chaparral clematis, pipestem, pipestem clematis |
Italian leather flower |
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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. |
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Inflorescences | axillary, flowers solitary, rarely 3-flowered cymes. |
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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. |
sepals 4, blue to violet or rose-violet, 1.5-4 cm, length ca. 1.2-2 times width, abaxially pubescent; stamens green; beak glabrous. |
Achenes | asymmetric-ovate, not broadly orbiculate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm, not conspicuously rimmed, glabrous; beak 3.5-5.5 cm. |
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Vines | 2-4(-6) m. Leaf blade: leaflets 3-7, proximal leaflets sometimes 3-foliolate, lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic, unlobed or 1-3-lobed, 1.5-7 cm, somewhat leathery, margins entire. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Clematis lasiantha |
Clematis viticella |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring (Jan–Jun). | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Chaparral, open woodlands | Roadsides, thickets and other secondary habitats |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 200 m (700 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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ON; native to Europe [Introduced in North America] |
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.) |
Clematis viticella has also been reported from Quebec, New York, and Tennessee, but the reports have not been verified. It probably should be expected elsewhere. (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. Viticella |
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Synonyms | Viticella viticella | |
Name authority | Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 9. (1838) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 543. (1753) |
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