Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Clematis drummondii
Clematis drummondii Torr. & A. Gray
Old Man's Beard, Drummond's Clematis, Texas Virgin's Bower, Goat's Beard
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family)
USDA Symbol: CLDRUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Clematis drummondii
Texas Virgin's Bower
Ranunculaceae
Location: North of East-West path & 45 m W of Oakwell Farms Pky--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Clamboring over small shrubs & climbing by twining petioles into low trees. Mostly shaded; nominal moisture; alkaline, alluvial soil.
Description: Dioecious, perennial vine, woody at base, branches to 3 m long, striate. Leaves opposite, long petioled, 5-7 parted pinnately. Leaflets short stalked, variously toothed. Flowers in panicles, simple/few flowered, axillary, long peduncled, bracteate, apetalous. Sepals 4, sericeous, greenish-white, persistant, crenulate at maturity. Stamens shorter than sepals. No pistils.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 29, 1987
Specimen number: 229
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0460
Accession Date: Jul 27, 1993
Accession Number: 36
Annotations: DS-XB Stam
(staminate)