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Calycocarpum lyonii

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Pursh) Nutall ex A. Gray

Common Names

• Cupseed

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• North Carolina
• Oklahama
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas - U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Woodlands
• lakeside
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (USA)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct (USA)

High-climbing herbaceous shrub with twining stems. Leaves palmately 3-7 lobed to 200mm long. Inconspicuous panicles or racemes of purple or greenish yellow flowers, pistillate panicles shorter than staminate panicles, 6 sepals to 2.5mm long, no petals. Fruit black berry to 25mm long

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Krussmann 1976
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• USDA
• JAA
• FOSEUS