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Common Name: Curlyheads
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis ochroleuca FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis ochroleuca FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis ochroleuca 076-10-001 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Dry woodlands and woodland borders, generally over mafic or calcareous rocks, such as diabase, gabbro, or calcareous siltstone
Uncommon in Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Fremont's Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis fremontii FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis fremontii FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Calcareous flatwoods and limestone or dolomite glades
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Alabama Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Clematis socialis FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis socialis FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Wet calcareous flatwoods
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name: White-haired Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Clematis albicoma FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis albicoma FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Shale barrens
Native: north of the Carolinas
Common Name: Pale Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Clematis versicolor FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis versicolor FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Rocky, calcareous woodlands, bluffs, and cliffs
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Millboro Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Clematis viticaulis FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis viticaulis FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Shale barrens and shaly woodlands
Native: north of the Carolinas
Common Name: Southern Leatherflower, Marsh Clematis, Swamp Leatherflower, Blue Jasmine
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis crispa FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis crispa FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis crispa 076-10-002 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Marshes, tidal and non-tidal swamps, floodplain forests, disturbed wet or moist areas
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Vase-vine, Netleaf Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis reticulata FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Clematis reticulata FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis reticulata 076-10-003 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Dry, sandy woodlands, such as longleaf pine sandhills and dry hammocks
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common Name: Northern Leatherflower, Vase-vine
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis viorna FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Clematis viorna FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis viorna 076-10-004 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Mesic forests, woodlands, thickets, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks
Common (uncommon in SC Piedmont & in GA, rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Ware's Leatherflower, Coosa Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis species 8 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Clematis viorna FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Uncommon in Piedmont (rare elsewhere)
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Beadle's Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis species 9 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Clematis viorna FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis viorna 076-10-004? FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Uncommon in Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: White-leaved Leatherflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis glaucophylla FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis glaucophylla FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis glaucophylla 076-10-005 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Dry rocky river bluffs, scrub-shrub over xeric alluvial deposits and fluvial sand ridges, wet hammocks (FL)
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Sweet Autumn Clematis, Yam-leaved Clematis, Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower, Japanese Virgin's-bower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis terniflora FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis terniflora FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis dioscoreifolia 076-10-006 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Common in NC Piedmont, rare in GA Mountains (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Non-native: east Asia (Japan, China, Korea)
Common Name: Virgin's Bower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis virginiana FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis virginiana FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis virginiana 076-10-007 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: In a wide variety of moist forests, thickets, and openings
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Coastal Virgin's Bower, Satin-curls, Climbing Clematis
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis catesbyana FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis catesbyana FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis ligusticifolia 076-10-008 FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Dunes and interdune swales with abundant shell hash, calcareous woodlands, thickets, and glades, calcareous hammocks
Uncommon in SC, rare in GA & NC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Mountain Clematis, Purple Clematis
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis occidentalis var. occidentalis FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis occidentalis var. occidentalis FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Clematis verticillaris 076-10-009x FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Rocky slopes over mafic rocks (greenstone, amphibolite), known positively in NC only from amphibolite peaks in Ashe County
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Common Name: Fragrant Clematis, Fragrant Virgin's Bower, Sweet-scented Virgin's Bower
PLANTS National Database: Clematis flammula FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Non-native: southern Europe & northern Africa
Common Name: Traveler’s Joy, Old Man's Beard
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Clematis vitalba FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Clematis vitalba FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas, persistent after cultivation
Non-native: east Asia
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