Eastern Blue Clematis is a slender perennial,
herbaceous vine. Flowers are 3.5-6 cm in diameter, with 5-6 petals
(technically sepals). Petals are blue or white, spreading, obovate to
narrowly obovate, 2-3 x 1-1.6 cm, below finely velvet-hairy, above
hairless, tip pointed. Stamens are 5-10 mm, anthers linear, 4-5 mm.
Flower-stalks are 3.5-7 cm. Flowers are borne singly on long
flower-cluster-stalk, with two leafy bracts about the middle. Branches
are shallowly 5-grooved. Leaves are 2-ternate or pinnate; leaf-stalk
2-5.5 cm, leaflet narrowly ovate, ovate, or lanceshaped, 1.5-5 x 0.6-2
cm, papery, undivided or sometimes 3-lobed. Eastern Blue Clematis is
found in NE India to S. China and N. Indo-China. Flowering: April-May.
Identification credit: Baishali Das
Photographed in Sootea, Biswanath distt, Assam.
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