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Clematis ochroleuca
Also called Curly Heads, Erect Silky Leather Flower, Silky Leatherflower
Curlyheads is a small, erect, woody-based perennial clematis native to the eastern United States, grown for its nodding, urn-shaped purple flowers and silky seed heads. It does best in sun to part shade in well-drained soil and is less vigorous than climbing clematis.
Clematis ochroleuca is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, known by the common names curlyheads and erect silky leather-flower. It is native to North America with a distribution on the east coast of the United States from Long Island to northern Georgia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clematis ochroleuca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
