Clematis vitalba

Clematis vitalba L.:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

introduced; B.C., Ont.; Maine, Oreg., Wash.; native to Europe, n Africa.

Canada

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Stems climbing with tendril-like petioles and leaf-rachises, to 12 m. Leaf blade pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets cordiform, 8 × (2-)3-5(-6) cm, margins entire to regularly crenate or dentate; surfaces abaxially minutely pubescent on veins, adaxially glabrous. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, (3-)5-22-flowered cymes. Flowers bisexual; pedicel 1-1.5 cm, slender; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, elliptic or oblanceolate to obovate, ca. 1 cm, length ca. 2 times width, abaxially and adaxially tomentose; stamens ca. 50; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent; pistils 20 or more. Achenes nearly terete, not conspicuously rimmed, densely pubescent; beak ca. 3.5 cm.

Roadsides, waste ground, secondary growth; 0-100m.

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Athelopsis glaucina is saprobic on decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Athelopsis lembospora is saprobic on decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Auricularia auricula-judae is saprobic on wood of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Basidiodendron spinosum is saprobic on dead liana of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Brevicellicium olivascens is saprobic on old, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
pycnidium of Camarosporium coelomycetous anamorph of Camarosporium vitalbae is saprobic on dead liane of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
bark (inside) of Clematis vitalba is saprobic on sporodochium of Excipularia fusispora

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Clitopilus hobsonii is saprobic on dead stem of Clematis vitalba
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / parasite
Erysiphe aquilegiae var. ranunculi parasitises Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
sporodochium of Excipularia dematiaceous anamorph of Excipularia fusispora is saprobic on bark (inside) of Clematis vitalba
Remarks: season: 1-9

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Exidia nucleata is saprobic on dead stem of Clematis vitalba
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Exidiopsis calcea is saprobic on dead stem of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Globulicium hiemale is saprobic on decayed wood of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Hyphodontia breviseta is saprobic on dead liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Hyphodontia pruni is saprobic on dead, decayed stem of Clematis vitalba
Other: minor host/prey

Plant / associate
Leptophloeus clematidis is associated with Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Lindtneria leucobryophila is saprobic on dead, fallen liana of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Litschauerella clematidis is saprobic on living liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: sole host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Marasmius tenuiparietalis is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed leaf of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / parasite
Marssonia coelomycetous anamorph of Marssonia clematidis parasitises live Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pellidiscus pallidus is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Phanerochaete martelliana is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Phlebiella fibrillosa is saprobic on dead liana of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / feeds on
pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph of Phoma vulgaris feeds on Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Phytomyza clematidis feeds within seedhead of Clematis vitalba
Other: sole host/prey

Foodplant / miner
larva of Phytomyza fulgens mines leaf of Clematis vitalba
Other: sole host/prey

Foodplant / miner
larva of Phytomyza vitalbae mines leaf (upper surface) of Clematis vitalba
Other: sole host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Radulomyces confluens is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Radulomyces rickii is saprobic on dead liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
immersed pseudothecium of Rebentischia unicaudata is saprobic on dead stem of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Resupinatus applicatus is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Schizopora paradoxa is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / spot causer
amphigenous, very minute, immersed, pallid brown pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph of Septoria clematidis causes spots on live leaf of Clematis vitalba
Remarks: season: 6-10

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Sistotremastrum suecicum is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
effuse colony of Sporidesmium dematiaceous anamorph of Sporidesmium aturbinatum is saprobic on wood or bark of Clematis vitalba
Remarks: season: 4-8
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Steccherinum fimbriatum is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: unusual host/prey

Plant / resting place / on
fruitbody of Tomentella punicea may be found on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Vararia gallica is saprobic on dead, decayed liana of Clematis vitalba

Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Xylocleptes bispinus feeds within stem of Clematis vitalba

Flowering summer (Jun-Aug).

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 9
Specimens with Barcodes: 12
Species With Barcodes: 1

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked