PLANTS DECIDUOUS • SPRING AND 



SUMMER 



Leaves Opposite and Compound 



1. Plants woody climbers with branched and coiling leafstalks; stems 

 ridged and grooved; bark stringy; pith hollow; "joints" (nodes) 



swollen clematis, virginsbower (Clematis spp.) . 



2. Stems low-climbing or clambering over rocks; leaflets 3; flowers 



large, purplish, single at "joints" on old wood; moist open woods, 



middle altitudes, Wallowa and Blue Mts., ne. Oreg., se. Wash. 



Columbia rock clematis (Clematis verticillaris var. 



columbiana). 

 2. Stems high-climbing, often over trees; leaflets 5-7; flowers 

 smaller, white, in clusters at "joints" on new wood; along 

 streams at lower altitudes, common in e. Oreg., e. Wash. 



western virginsbower (Clematis ligusticifolia) . 



Columbia rock clematis 



Western virginsbower 



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