Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis vitalba |
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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 |
evergreen clematis, old-man's beard, Traveler's-joy, Traveler's-joy clematis, white virgin's-bower |
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Stems | viny, climbing or trailing (plants scarcely viny perennials in var. dissecta). |
climbing with tendril-like petioles and leaf-rachises, to 12 m. Leaf blade pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets cordiform, 8 × (2-)3-5(-6) cm, margins entire to regularly crenate or dentate; surfaces abaxially minutely pubescent on veins, adaxially 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, (3-)5-22-flowered cymes. |
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Flowers | sepals violet-blue, reddish violet, or white, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic-oblong. |
bisexual; pedicel 1-1.5 cm, slender; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, elliptic or oblanceolate to obovate, ca. 1 cm, length ca. 2 times width, abaxially and adaxially tomentose; stamens ca. 50; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent; pistils 20 or more. |
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Achenes | nearly terete, not conspicuously rimmed, densely pubescent; beak ca. 3.5 cm. |
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Clematis occidentalis |
Clematis vitalba |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jun–Aug). | |||||||||
Habitat | Roadsides, waste ground, secondary growth | |||||||||
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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ME; OR; WA; BC; ON; native to Europe; n Africa [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 vitalba is naturalized in only a few sites in eastern North America and northwestern Oregon to the Puget Sound. (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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