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Clematis vitalba L.  
Family: Ranunculaceae
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James S. Pringle in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Stems climbing with tendril-like petioles and leaf-rachises, to 12 m. Leaf blade pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets cordiform, 8 × (2-)3-5(-6) cm, margins entire to regularly crenate or dentate; surfaces abaxially minutely pubescent on veins, adaxially glabrous. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, (3-)5-22-flowered cymes. Flowers bisexual; pedicel 1-1.5 cm, slender; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, elliptic or oblanceolate to obovate, ca. 1 cm, length ca. 2 times width, abaxially and adaxially tomentose; stamens ca. 50; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent; pistils 20 or more. Achenes nearly terete, not conspicuously rimmed, densely pubescent; beak ca. 3.5 cm. Flowering summer (Jun-Aug). Roadsides, waste ground, secondary growth; 0-100 m; introduced; B.C., Ont.; Maine, Oreg., Wash.; native to Europe, n Africa. Clematis vitalba is naturalized in only a few sites in eastern North America and northwestern Oregon to the Puget Sound.

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