Stems herbaceous, ascending to erect, not climbing, 0.6-1.5 m. Leaf-blade pinnately 5-9-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate to ovate, 3-9 × 0.8-4 cm, margins entire; surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, many-flowered cymes and panicles. Flowers bisexual; pedicel 8-20 mm, slender; sepals widespreading, not recurved, white, oblanceolate to oblong, 8-20 mm, length ca. 4 times width, margins tomentose, otherwise glabrous; stamens 20-50; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent; pistils 8-25. Achenes broad, flat, conspicuously rimmed, glabrous; beak 1.2-2 cm.
Phenology: Flowering summer (Jun–Jul).
Habitat: Old fields and thickets
Elevation: 0-100 m
Distribution
Introduced; Ont., N.Y., native of Eurasia
Discussion
Clematis recta should probably be expected elsewhere.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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glabrous +
rimmed +
broad +
dehiscing +
terminal +
absent +
plumose +
anther-bearing +
absent +
scale-like;leaflike +
sepaloid +
absent +
aggregated +
globose;cylindric +
many-flowered +
small +
abundant +
glabrous +
filiform +
slender +
symmetric +
absent +
bisexual +
flattened-ellipsoid;terete;flattened-ellipsoid;terete;lenticular +
axillary +
true +
5-9-foliolate +
1-2-pinnate +
divided +
opposite +
cauline +
toothed;entire +
absent +
many-flowered +
slender +
hypogynous +
rotate +
distinct +
absent +
conspicuous +
0;26 +
reduced +
tendril-like +
absent +
simple +
absent +
rudimentary +
Sp. Pl. +
1753 +
elongate +
1;many +
petaloid +
spurred +
not connivent +
white +
not persistent +
distinct +
thickened +
veined +
Introduced +
yellow-flowered +
distinct +
20;50 +
absent +
unarmed +
not climbing +
herbaceous +
absent +
persistent +
absent +
glabrous +
Clematis recta +
Clematis subg. Clematis +
species +
perennial +
herbaceous +
rhizomatous +
woody +