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Ranunculaceae
Leather Flower
Clematis viorna
Mental fortitude and ingenuity.
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Genus
- Clematis
- Native to
- Eastern United States
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- vine
- Height
- 6-10 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- moist, rich, well-drained
- Water
- moderate
- Hardiness
- 5-8
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- The thick, leathery sepals that form the urn-shaped flowers give this plant its common name.
- Unlike showy clematis hybrids, the flowers never fully open and remain in a distinctive bell shape.
- Bumblebees must force their way into the closed flowers to access the nectar inside.
- The feathery seed heads that follow flowering are as ornamental as the flowers themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson grew leather flowers at Monticello and noted them in his garden journals.
Color meanings
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ingenuity
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cleverness
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artifice