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Mikania cordifolia

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Linnaeus f.) Willdenow

Common Names

• Hairy Hempweed
• Florida Keys Hempvine
• Liane Françoise (Haiti)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Espirito Santo
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Piaui
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Uruguay
• Alabama
• Florida
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Texas
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• rain forest
• pasture
• riverside
• disturbed areas
• shrubland
• forest edges
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Nov-Apr (Greater Antilles)
• Dec-Feb (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Pubescent or glabrescent twining or sprawling slightly woody subshrub or herb with somewhat angled stems usually spirally twisted. Undulate leaves to 120mm x 100mm, pilose or tomentose margins and undersides, crenate margins. Dense terminal and axillary cymes or panicles with bracts of scented whitish 6mm flowers in heads to 10mm long with pilose bracts to 5mm long, pubescent or glabrate phyllaries to 8mm long, white corolla to 5mm long, tube to 2mm long, glabrous throat to 1.5mm long. Greyish glabrous achenes with 5 longitudinal ribs to 5mm x 3.5mm, dull white pappus bristles to 5mm long becoming reddish.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• Holmes
• USNH
• SAFIO
• Standley