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Posion Ivy?

10 years ago

What could this be???

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carol23_gw
10 years ago
I believe it's a Clematis. I think I can see old flower heads.
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dawny2u2
Original Author
10 years ago
Here is another section that has just finished flowering. I dug these up from my woods, they were growing like crazy on the trees
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Oh wow!! A BIG THANK YOU to all of you!! I am so glad i did not dig it up now!! It is planted facing east up against the side of his house. There also seems to be white rock gravel over it that someone has put down through out the years that now is scattered. I am wondering now if i should try to get some of that up, or can i add a bit of mulch around it?? It sure has not been watered since i have been here (and he isnt able) so when i go out to water my plants, i will be sure to give it water since i will be planting a few things over there for him too. So is it normal that it hasnt bloomed for him in 5 years hes lived there?? Or could that be because of lack of water?? I will try the coffee thing as well. I recently planted two in my yard and it will be interesting to try for sure!! I have read that tea works for fertilizer somewhat too. I have mammoth ears in large pots and they were looking kind of funny so i had some unsweet tea that was going bad, and i dulited it with more water and poured it into the elephant ears and they are doing great now and even put out tons of new shoots. I have no clue as to what i am doing and i am learning much, i just cant wait to tell him today it is not a weed. I love the whiteish looking soild outline on the leaves of it. I put two different types of them in my yard and they dont have those pretty leaves like that. So i might ask him for a small start of it this fall to have one in my yard as well, and i figure if i do that it would be good to try and get some of those rocks out and maybe do the mulch if that would be better then the rocks. Any suggestions??
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missingtheobvious
10 years ago
Absolutely a clematis with those flower heads.
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dawny2u2
Original Author
10 years ago
Yeah. Thanks!!
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
10 years ago
one might suspect.. that if they are growing all over the trees in the forest.. that they have some invasive qualities.. and perhaps you might not want to be bringing such potential monsters into your garden ...

free is not always a good thing...

compare with autumn sweet clematis.. at link... and read up on invasiveness...

mine just started blooming here in MI ... so that MIGHT rule out such for you.. since.. well.. its leaves dont match.. lol ... nor its flowering period.. my point.. apparently if i have one.. lol .. is that not all free things are good.. [ok../ i am done entertaining myself...]

you need a definitive latin name ...

sometimes i wonder if i shouldnt just hit delete.. lol

do you guys need better pix for a complete ID????

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: link
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carol23_gw
10 years ago
Yes, hit delete, good idea.

I do not believe it's terniflora which does not appear on the distribution map for Montana or anywhere near it. There are many small white- flowered Clematis.
I suspect it's a western species, Clematis ligusticifolia.

Distribution of Clematis terniflora from F.N.A. :
http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=5300&flora_id=1

Here is a link that might be useful: Clematis ligusticifolia
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dawny2u2
Original Author
10 years ago
Thank you both for your input. And thanks for not mentioning that my picture was sideways. I posted on my smart phone, and, apparently, I could not tell it was sideways.
Carol, I think you are right on! I live right on the highway, and I did think (Ken you were right on about the "free") I would utilize what I had to make a nice screen. There isn't anything around it, except the utility fencing I put up.
I am impressed with the combined knowledge. Thanks!
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