Leather flower Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals
    Clematis viorna; vase-fine; vase vine.
  2. noun woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals
    Clematis versicolor.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.

Webster 1913