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Friday - April 04, 2014
From: Burton, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Plant Identification
Title: Vine with wine-colored flowers in Washington County, TX
Answered by: Joe Marcus
QUESTION:
I'm trying to identify a deep purple wine colored flowering vine in Washington County, Texas. It looks very similar to Texas wisteria, but it is something else. I've seen them growing in vineyards at the ends of rows of the grape plants.ANSWER:
It is usually very difficult to identify plants based on short, written descriptions. This identification is no exception. A couple of native possibilities that come to mind are Wisteria frutescens and Clematis pitcheri.
If neither of these species are your mystery plant, you might try doing a combination search in the NPIN Plants Database. Select Texas in the "Select State or Province" box and select Vine in the "Habit (general appearance)" box. Then click on the "Submit combination Search" button. The search will yield about 162 possibilities, but you can scroll through them fairly quickly and perhaps find the ID you seek.
If you don't find the plant you're looking for there, your mystery plant is likely a non-native species. In that case, we recommend sending a plant ID request to the UBC Forums for potential identification.
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