Clematis texensis |
Clematis vitalba |
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crimson clematis, scarlet clematis, scarlet leather flower, Texas clematis |
evergreen clematis, old-man's beard, Traveler's-joy, Traveler's-joy clematis, white virgin's-bower |
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Stems | viny, to 3 m, glabrous or sometimes ± hirsute near nodes. |
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. |
Leaf | blade 1-pinnate; leaflets 6-10 plus additional tendril-like terminal leaflet, ovate to nearly round, unlobed, 2-3-lobed, or most proximal occasionally 3-foliolate, 1-9 × 1-6 cm, leathery, ± prominently reticulate adaxially; surfaces abaxially usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely pubescent, glaucous. |
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Inflorescences | axillary, 1-7-flowered. |
axillary and terminal, (3-)5-22-flowered cymes. |
Flowers | ovoid to urn-shaped; sepals rose-red to scarlet abaxially and at tip adaxially, ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm, margins not expanded, thick, not crispate, tomentose, tips acute to acuminate, recurved, abaxially glabrous. |
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. |
Achenes | bodies appressed-pubescent; beak 4-7 cm, plumose. |
nearly terete, not conspicuously rimmed, densely pubescent; beak ca. 3.5 cm. |
2n | = 16. |
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Clematis texensis |
Clematis vitalba |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer (Mar–Jun). | Flowering summer (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Woodlands, calcareous cliffs, and stream banks | Roadsides, waste ground, secondary growth |
Elevation | 80-700 m (300-2300 ft) | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) |
Distribution |
TX
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ME; OR; WA; BC; ON; native to Europe; n Africa [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Although widely cultivated because it is the only species of Clematis with truly red flowers, C.texensis is native only to the southeastern part of the Edwards Plateau, Texas. (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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Viorna | Ranunculaceae > Clematis > subg. Clematis |
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Synonyms | Viorna coccinea | |
Name authority | Buckley: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 448. (1862) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 544. (1753) |
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