When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who...
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills...
The specific epithet ligusticifolia for this Clematis means that the plant has leaves like Ligusticum or lovage. I used the name Levisticum for lovage...