General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Vine
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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| Water Preferences: |
Wet Mesic
Mesic
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| Leaves: |
Deciduous
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| Flowers: |
Other: small but nice
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| Flower Color: |
Purple
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| Flower Time: |
Summer
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- Clematis
- Leather Flower
- Bluebill
- Purple clematis
- Lion's Beard
- Old Man's Whiskers
- Vase Vine
- Purple Leatherflower
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jun 30, 2018 4:08 PM concerning plant:
This Pitcher's Bluebill or Purple Leather-Flower, gets about 12 feet long. The leaves get to be 3 inches by 2 inches in size. It is largely hairless. It is more woody than most clematis. It blooms about 1 to 2 months in mid-summer. It is a kind of leather-flower clematis with small urn-like flowers that have thick, succulent sepals, thus its name. It dies to the ground in late fall. It is found around woodlands, thickets, and fence rows from southwest Indiana to eastern Nebraska to Tennessee to Texas.
Posted by
Gourd on Aug 20, 2013 9:52 AM concerning plant:
This has been blooming here in zone 8a since May 2013. It currently has a few buds and makes lots of seeds. This plant took three years to bloom and the second plant purchased at the same time still has not bloomed, I can only suppose that it is working on the root system as you can see some foliage.
Plant Events from our members
| jon |
On May 7, 2014 |
Obtained plant |
| piksihk |
On September 30, 2023 |
Bloomed |
| piksihk |
On July 18, 2020 |
Seeds sown
3 brown seeds in pot; still have blooms |
| piksihk |
On June 4, 2020 |
Bloomed |
| piksihk |
On May 25, 2019 |
Bloomed |
| piksihk |
On September 30, 2017 |
Miscellaneous Event
rooting cuttings |
| piksihk |
On July 6, 2017 |
Miscellaneous Event
seeds forming |
| piksihk |
On April 9, 2016 |
Transplanted
HW |
| piksihk |
On June 1, 2014 |
Obtained plant |
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| Mislabeled? by plantladylin |
Aug 1, 2017 1:40 PM |
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