{{short description|Species of flowering plant in the buttercup family}} {{Italic title}} {{Speciesbox |name = ''Clematis pauciflora'' |image = Clematispauciflora.jpg |taxon = Clematis pauciflora |authority = Nutt. | status = G3 | status_system = TNC | status_ref = <ref name="TNC status 19 may 2022">{{Cite web|date=2022 |url= https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.139457 |access-date=19 May 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer |publisher=NatureServe|title= NatureServe Explorer }}</ref> |}}
'''''Clematis pauciflora''''' is a species of clematis known by the common name '''ropevine'''. This flowering plant is native to the high desert and chaparral slopes of southern California and Baja California. It is a woody vine with nodes every few centimeters which produce leaves and flowers. The leaves are made up of several dark green lobed leaflets, each one to three centimeters wide. From each leaf-bearing node grows an inflorescence of one to three flowers with narrow petallike sepals in shades of light yellow. Most of the flower is made up of a spray of up to 50 stamens and almost as many similar-looking pistils. The fruit is an achene equipped with a long plume-like style. The specific epithet ''pauciflora'' is Latin for 'few-flowered'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coombes |first=Allen J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=capqDQYT_VYC&pg=PA106 |title=The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants |date=2012-07-16 |publisher=Timber Press |isbn=978-1-60469-398-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gledhill |first=D |title=The Names of Plants |pages=220}}</ref>
== Description == ''C. pauciflora'' is a woody vine with nodes that produce leaves of three leaflets. The leaflets tend to be toothed, and at their largest are one to three centimeters in width. The inflorescences contain up to three flowers, with sepals of 7-12 millimeters in length. They are abaxially hairy, and adaxially glabrous. The flowers can contain 30-50 stamens, each between 6-12 millimeters long, and between 25 and 50 pistils. The dry achene fruit is glabrous, but has a plume-like style.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Greenhouse |first1=Jeffrey |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn9sv |title=The Digital Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Expanded |last2=Markos |first2=Staci |last3=Moe |first3=Richard L. |last4=Simono |first4=Scott |last5=Wetherwax |first5=Margriet |last6=Vorobik |first6=Linda Ann |date=2012 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-25312-4 |edition=2 |jstor=10.1525/j.ctt1pn9sv }}</ref>
== Distribution == The plant is native between the Little San Bernardino Mountains and Baja California. Its natural range includes the Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego county areas of southern California.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calscape |title=Small Leaved Clematis |url=https://calscape.org/Clematis-pauciflora-(Small-Leaved-Clematis) |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=calscape.org |language=en}}</ref> The plant is found in dry chaparral areas under 1300m in altitude, and is intermediate to its close relative ''Clematis lasiantha''.<ref name=":0" />
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==External links== *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?6434,6454,6457 Jepson Manual Treatment] *[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CLPA2 USDA Plants Profile] *[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Clematis+pauciflora Photo gallery]
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pauciflora Category:Flora of California Category:Flora of Baja California