Native Plants of the Midwest by Alan Branhagen

Author:Alan Branhagen [Branhagen, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2016-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Clematis pitcheri (pitcher leather flower) rambles compatibly through perennial plantings.

Clematis pitcheri (pitcher’s leather flower) is found in woodland edges and open woods and is more widespread across the Lower Midwest from southern Indiana to southeastern Nebraska. Its flowers vary from uniformly steely blue-purple to bicolored blue-purple with creamier sepal ends but always looking like upside-down urn. My new vine from a Missouri source taught me this, and then I looked on the website of Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which includes images that show this variation. Although the flowers are not showy from afar, they are beautiful on close inspection. The fruits are less showy than those of other herbaceous clematis, with shorter silkless-awned achenes. This species is the most vigorous of our leather flowers growing as much as 10 feet.

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