EcoFlora - Clematis viticella

Clematis viticella L.
Family: Ranunculaceae Italian Leather-Flower [Viticella viticella Small]	FNA Gleason & Cronquist Resources James S. Pringle in Flora of North America (vol. 3) 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. Flowers: 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. Flowering summer-fall. Roadsides, thickets and other secondary habitats; 200 m; introduced; Ont.; native to Europe. 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. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada A Eurasian climber with blue to purple or rosy fls 3-5 cm wide, lacking staminodes, and with a glabrous style, occasionally escaped from cult. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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