Date: XXXXXXXX 2010. Location: XXXXXXXXX(map)
| Classification Hierarchy | |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Subkingdom | Tracheophyta |
| Superdivision | Spermatophyta |
| Division | Magnoliophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Subclass | Magnoliidae |
| Order | Ranunculales |
| Family | Ranunculaceae |
| Genus | Clematis |
| Species | Clematis virginiana |
Date: XXXXXXXX 2010. Location: XXXXXXXXX(map)
USDA Plant Profile Flora of N. America
Scientific Name: Clematis_virginiana
Common Name: Virgin's-bower, devil's darning needles
Origin: Native
Notes: The white spreading flowers make C. virginiana easy to distinguish from the two other Clematis species in our area (which are closer to purple). In Iowa, C. virginiana is partial to moist soils and most abundant in the eastern third of the state.
Additional references: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Flowers: June; white; unisexual (dioecious) with either numerous stamens or numerous pistils and sterile stamens; inflorescence axillary in simple or compound cymes; sepals (usually four) wide spreading, not recurved, abaxial surface with white hairs; fruit—achenes hairy and long beaked.
Leaves: opposite, mostly three foliate, margins entire to coarsely toothed, lower (abaxial) surface pilose, clasping petioles assist the climbing stems.
Glossaries of botanical terms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
