OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 18 taxa.

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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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camera icon 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

 


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camera icon 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

 


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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

 


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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

 


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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

 


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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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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

 


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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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camera icon 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

 


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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

 


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camera icon 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

 


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camera icon speaker icon 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)

 


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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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camera icon 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

 


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Common Name: Fragrant Clematis, Fragrant Virgin's Bower, Sweet-scented Virgin's Bower

Clematis flammula

PLANTS National Database: Clematis flammula   FAMILY: Ranunculaceae

 

Non-native: southern Europe & northern Africa

 


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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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