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Aristolochia clematitis

Botanic Family

Aristolochiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Cultivated

C, medicinal

Common Names

• Birthwort
• Heartwort
• Sarrasine (French)
• Gemeine Osterluzei (German)
• Wolfskraut (German)
• Pijpbloem (Dutch)
• Kirkason Lomonosovidnyj (Russian)

Geographical Habitats

• Albania
• Austria
• Baltic States
• Belarusse
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Crimea
• Czechoslovakia
• European Russia
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Romania
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• May (France)

Fruiting Times

Deciduous scandent perennial herb with glabrous leaves to 60mm x 65mm. Small curved tubular whitish, yellow-brown, pale yellow or brown flowers to 30mm long in axillary fascicles of up to 8 flowers, yellow-brown calyx, utricle to 5mm x 3mm, tube to 30mm x 3mm, purple lobed limb to 60mm. Fruit a capsule to 30mm x 30mm.

Contact with sap may irritate skin, possible carcinogen. Naturalised many places

Further References

• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• Jstor