COLUMBIA CLEMATIS 



Clematis Columbiana (Nuttall) Torrey and Gray 



Columbia clematis is one of the daintiest and most attractive of the 

 mountain wild flowers. The scrambling vine grows gracefully over 

 the rocks, or clings to some convenient support of bushes or small 

 trees, the single purple blossoms lending themselves to the situation 

 with the utmost freedom from conventionality. The stems are woody, 

 and after the petal-like sepals fall the feathery seed heads are quite as 

 attractive as the flowers. The blossoms are produced in spring or early 

 summer. 



Columbia clematis may be found from the mountains of Colorado 

 and Washington northward to the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and 

 British Columbia. 



The specimen sketched grew five miles from Field, British Colum- 

 bia, on the slopes of Mount Burgess, near the trail to Burgess Pass, at 

 an altitude of 6,500 feet. 



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