Clematis ochroleuca

In New York, Clematis ochroleucra is known only from Staten Island and, formerly, from western Long Island (Brooklyn).

Stems erect to ± sprawling, not viny, 2-7 dm,, sparsely to ± densely pilose. Leaves simple. Leaf blade narrowly to broadly ovate, unlobed or rarely few-lobed, 3-14 × (1.5-)2.5-8(-9.5) cm, ± leathery, reticulate adaxially; surfaces abaxially moderately silky-pilose with spreading hairs or rarely nearly glabrous, not glaucous. Inflorescences terminal, flowers solitary; bracts absent. Flowers narrowly urn-shaped; sepals pale yellow to pale purple, lanceolate, 1-3.5 cm, margins not expanded, thin, not crispate, tomentose, tip obtuse, spreading to recurved, abaxially silky-pubescent. Achenes: bodies pilose, hairs appressed-ascending; beak yellowish brown to reddish brown, 3-6 cm, plumose. 2 n = 16.

D.C., Ga., Md., N.J., N.Y., N.C., S.C., Va.

Flowering spring.

Dry to moist woods, thickets, roadsides, and other shady to open, ± disturbed sites, mostly on mafic substrates; 0-500m.

Viorna ochroleuca (Aiton) Small

Clematis ochroleuca is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, known by the common names curlyheads and erect silky leather-flower. It is native to North America with a distribution on the east coast of the United States from Long Island to northern Georgia.

Clematis ochroleuca là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Mao lương. Loài này được Aiton mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1789.