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Published In: Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, . . . 2: 736. 1814[1813]. (Fl. Amer. Sept.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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1. Clematis catesbyana Pursh (Catesby’s leather flower, satin curls)

Map 2349

Plants mostly dioecious, sometimes incompletely so, the stems woody (at least toward the base), twining, 2–6 m long. Well-developed leaves pinnately 5-foliate, herbaceous in texture, the minor veins not raised, the leaflets toothed and usually shallowly 3-lobed, the upper surface green, the undersurface hairy along the main veins, paler but not glaucous. Flowers in dense clusters (cymes), only occasionally perfect. Perianth saucer-shaped, the sepals 6–9(–14) mm long, spreading horizontally, white or cream-colored, not thickened or leathery, the margins relatively smooth, the outer surface hairy, the inner surface with a few scattered hairs. Fruits with the beak 2.5–3.5 cm long, plumose with long spreading hairs. June–August.

Scattered in the eastern and southern portions of the Ozark Division (southeastern U.S. west to Kansas and Louisiana). Openings and margins of mesic upland forests and banks of streams and rivers; also roadsides, mostly on dolomite and chert substrates.

Plants of this taxon were originally mistaken for C. virginiana (Steyermark, 1963). The species was first reported from Missouri by Essig (1990).

 
 


 

 
 
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