Definition of Clematis viorna

1. Noun. Scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals.

Exact synonyms: Leather Flower, Vase Vine, Vase-fine
Generic synonyms: Clematis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clematis Viorna

Cleistes
Cleistes divaricata
Cleistes rosea
Cleland's reagent
Cleland nomenclature
Clelia
Clematis baldwinii
Clematis crispa
Clematis lasiantha
Clematis ochreleuca
Clematis tangutica
Clematis texensis
Clematis versicolor
Clematis verticillaris
Clematis viorna (current term)
Clematis virginiana
Clematis vitalba
Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
Clemenceau
Clemens
Clement
Clement Attlee
Clement Philibert Leo Delibes
Clement Richard Attlee
Clementi
Clementina
Clementine
Clemmy

Literary usage of Clematis viorna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Clematis viorna L. Sp. Pl. 543. 1753. A vine, climbing to the height of 1o° or more over bushes in iich soil. Leaves mostly pinnate; leaflets glabrous, ..."

2. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"John King, in the first edition of his Dispensatory (1852), gave Clematis virginiana and Clematis viorna each a fair therapeutic notice ; and this was ..."

3. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"... (Clematis viorna, L.) Grows in middle and upper districts of South Carolina. Elliott. K C., Curtis. FI. July. Shec. Flora Carol. 489 ; Griffith's Med. ..."

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