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Funastrum crispum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Bentham) Schlechter

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. & W. Mexico
• Arizona
• Colorado
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Texas - USA

Natural Habitats

• Thicket
• streamside

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Sep

Slender twining vine to 1m+ with puberulent stems becoming glabrous. Puberulous leaves to 80mm long with undulate crisped margins. Yellow-purple flowers in 6-10 flowered inflorescence, puberulous calyx lobes, greenish-purple corolla, glabrous above & 15mm x 12mm. Puberulous follicles to 130mm long.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• USDA
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• USNH
• Kew