This low-growing vine with beautiful lavender flowers is common in wet areas of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. An alternate common name is Southern Leatherflower.
Pender Co., NC 4/19/08.
The lavender-colored sepals are more reflexed and almost twice as long as those of the Northern Leatherflower (Clematis viorna).
Johnston Co., NC 4/20/08.
Leaves have three leaflets.
Pender Co., NC 4/19/08.
This specimen has unusually narrow leaflets.
Johnston Co., NC 4/20/08.
Johnston Co., NC 4/20/08.
