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Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in wet hammocks, habitat in our area poorly known, also probably in dry woodlands or openings over calcareous rocks, and according to the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas in "rich woods", per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Compound/Rarely simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Deep reddish-purple
Radially symmetrical
4 petaloid sepals, calyx urceolate
Petals absent
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers in axillary clusters

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Brownish
Aggregate of achenes

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Clematis glaucophylla   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Clematis glaucophylla   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 076-10-005:
 Clematis glaucophylla   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Viorna glaucophylla

 

COMMON NAME:
 White-leaved Leatherflower

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image of Clematis glaucophylla, White-leaved Leatherflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vigl3_001_lvd

        

image of Clematis glaucophylla, White-leaved Leatherflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_glaucophylla

May        

Flowers ovoid; sepal tips not expanded or crispate but are long acuminate, per The genus Clematis in Georgia. Tipularia (Ware, 2009).

image of Clematis glaucophylla, White-leaved Leatherflower

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_glaucophylla_16

May