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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Clematis virginiana
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    RANUNCULALES
 FAMILY:   RANUNCULACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Clematis virginiana
 AUTHORITY:  L.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    VIRGIN'S BOWER
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: CLVI5
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         MESIC
       THICKETS
     WETLAND
       BORDER OF LAKE
     CULTURAL
       AGRICULTURAL FIELD
         FIELD DIVISION
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOONE           BROWN           CASS
   CLARK           COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD        DEKALB
   DOUGLAS         EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FORD            FULTON
   GREENE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HARDIN          HENDERSON
   HENRY           JACKSON         JO DAVIESS      JOHNSON         KANE
   KANKAKEE        KENDALL         KNOX            LAKE            LEE
   LIVINGSTON      LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MACOUPIN
   MARSHALL        MASSAC          MENARD          MONROE          MORGAN
   OGLE            PEORIA          PIATT           PIKE            POPE
   PULASKI         ST. CLAIR       SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SCOTT
   STARK           STEPHENSON      TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION
   WABASH          WAYNE           WHITE           WHITESIDE       WILLIAMSON
   WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:     Opposite
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple  Compound  (trifoliate)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Dentate   Lobed
    LEAF SHAPE:     Ovate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Dischasium  Panicle  Corymb
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Incomplete  (no petals)   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Vine   Liana
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      7         MONTH END-     10
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Unisexual   -dioecious
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in borders of woods; calcareous areas.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   COLONIZING
 
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist.  1963.  Manual of vascular plants of north-
     eastern United States and adjacent Canada.  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
     New York.  810 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Clematis virginiana
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015