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Cocculus carolinus

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Common Names

• Carolina Moonseed
• Red Moonseed
• Coral Beads
• Snail-seed
• Red-berried Moonseed

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Mexico
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississipi
• Missouri
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia - U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• woodland
• streamside
• riverside
• swamp edge
• thickets
• fields

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug Mid-summer

Fruiting Times

• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Twining trailing or climbing semi-woody vine to 3m. Entire or 3-5 lobed leaves to 120mm long, glabrate above & tomentose beneath. 6mm white or greenish flowers, staminate flowers in compound racemes, pistillate flowers in simple racemes, 6 sepals, 3 outer sepals to 1mm long, inner sepals to 2mm long, petals 1mm long. Red drupe to 8mm across.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• USNH