Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis recta |
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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 |
ground virgin's-bower |
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Stems | viny, climbing or trailing (plants scarcely viny perennials in var. dissecta). |
herbaceous, ascending to erect, not climbing, 0.6-1.5 m. Leaf blade pinnately 5-9-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate to ovate, 3-9 × 0.8-4 cm, margins entire; surfaces glabrous. |
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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 and terminal, many-flowered cymes and panicles. |
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Flowers | sepals violet-blue, reddish violet, or white, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic-oblong. |
bisexual; pedicel 8-20 mm, slender; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white, oblanceolate to oblong, 8-20 mm, length ca. 4 times width, margins tomentose, otherwise glabrous; stamens 20-50; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent; pistils 8-25. |
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Achenes | broad, flat, conspicuously rimmed, glabrous; beak 1.2-2 cm. |
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Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis recta |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jun–Jul). | |||||||||
Habitat | Old fields and thickets | |||||||||
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 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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NY; ON; native of 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 recta should probably be expected elsewhere. (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. Atragene | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Clematis | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Atragene occidentalis | |||||||||
Name authority | (Hornemann) de Candolle: Prodr. 1: 10. (1824) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 544. (1753) | ||||||||
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