This low-growing vine with beautiful lavender flowers is common in wet areas of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. An alternate common name is Southern Leatherflower.

Pender Co., NC 4/19/08.

The lavender-colored sepals are more reflexed and almost twice as long as those of the Northern Leatherflower (Clematis viorna).

Johnston Co., NC 4/20/08.

Leaves have three leaflets.

Pender Co., NC 4/19/08.

This specimen has unusually narrow leaflets.

Johnston Co., NC 4/20/08.

Johnston Co., NC 4/20/08.