Virginia white-hair leather flower
Clematis coactilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Clematis
Species:
C. coactilis
Binomial name
Clematis coactilis
(Fernald) Keener
Synonyms[1]

Clematis albicoma var. coactilis Fernald

Clematis coactilis, common name Virginia white-hair leather flower,[2] is a plant species endemic to the western part of the US State of Virginia. It is reported from only Botetourt, Roanoke, Craig, Montgomery, Giles, Wythe, and Pulaski Counties.[3] It is usually found on soils formed from shale, less often dolomite, limestone or sandstone.[4]

Clematis coactilis is a shrub, not a vine like many of the other members of the genus. It is erect, up to 45 cm tall with silky, bristly or woolly hairs. Leaves are thick and leathery, simple but sometimes lobed, up to 12 cm long. Flowers are bell—shaped, borne one at a time at the tips of branches, pale yellow sometimes with a purplish tinge. Achenes are hairy, with a feathery beak up to 6 cm long.[4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos
  2. ↑ "American Bells, Carol Lim, Clematis coactilis". Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  3. ↑ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Plants Profile Database
  4. 1 2 Flora of North America vol 3
  5. ↑ Keener, Carl Samuel. 1967. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 83: 36.
  6. ↑ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. 1943. Rhodora 45(538): 407–410, pl. 780.
  7. ↑ Gleason, H. A. & A.J. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.