Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis orientalis |
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blue clematis, clématite occidentale, Columbia bower, Columbia clematis, Columbia virgin's bower, purple clematis, purple virgin's-bower, rock clematis, western blue clematis, western blue virginsbower, western clematis |
Chinese clematis, oriental clematis, oriental virginsbower |
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Stems | viny, climbing or trailing (plants scarcely viny perennials in var. dissecta). |
climbing, 2-8 m. Leaf blade pinnately 5-7-foliolate, proximal leaflets sometimes 3-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, usually 2-3-lobed proximally, 1-5.5 × 0.5-3.5 cm, margins entire or coarsely few-toothed; surfaces at least abaxially pubescent, glaucous. |
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Leaf | blade 1-ternate (or terminal leaflet sometimes ternate in var. dissecta), ± firm but not succulent; leaflets lance-ovate to triangular or suborbiculate, lobed or unlobed, margins entire or toothed. |
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Inflorescences | axillary, sometimes terminal, 3-many-flowered cymes or flowers solitary. |
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Flowers | sepals violet-blue, reddish violet, or white, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic-oblong. |
bisexual; pedicel (0.5-)1-11 cm; sepals wide-spreading and recurved, greenish yellow, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 0.8-2 cm, length ca. 2.5 times width, margins densely pubescent, abaxially and adaxially pubescent or abaxially glabrous; stamens 20-40; filaments pilose proximally; staminodes absent; pistils 75-150. |
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Achenes | turgid, not conspicuously rimmed, pilose; beak 2-5 cm. |
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Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis orientalis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | |||||||||
Habitat | Roadsides, other secondary habitats, open woods | |||||||||
Elevation | 0-2600 m (0-8500 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CO; CT; DE; IA; ID; IL; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OR; PA; RI; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; NB; ON; QC; SK; YT
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CO; NM; NV; UT; ON; native to Eurasia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Clematis orientalis has been reported from Idaho; it probably can be expected elsewhere. This species has been divided by C. Grey-Wilson (1989) into five varieties, partly correlated with their distribution in Asia. Naturalized plants in North America seem best referred to C. orientalis var. robusta Grey-Wilson, native to Afghanistan. Although Clematis orientalis has been naturalized in the Rocky Mountains since the late nineteenth century, it has spread especially rapidly since ca. 1975, becoming weedy and, in some localities, constituting a threat to young trees and native shrubby and herbaceous species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Atragene | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Clematis | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Atragene occidentalis | Viticella orientalis | ||||||||
Name authority | (Hornemann) de Candolle: Prodr. 1: 10. (1824) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 543. (1753) | ||||||||
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