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Mikania scandens
Mikania scandens
- Botanic Family
- Asteraceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Willdenow
Common Names
- Climbing Hempweed
- Wild Climbing Hemp-weed
- Climbing Hemp-vine
- Wabosucu (Fiji)
- Mile-a-minute
- Wabutako (Fiji)
- Akar Churoma (Singapore)
- Guaco
- Liane Serpent
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Ontario - Canada
- Cuba
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Colombia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia - USA
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed forest
- coastal
- riverside
- thickets
- swamps
- streamside
- shrubland
- inundated areas
- woodland
- savanna
- salt marsh
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Tall perennial herbaceous glabrous or pilose evergreen twiner to 4.5m with 6-angled stems. Glabrous or hairy toothed lor lobed leaves to 150mm x 80mm. 125mm long terminal & axillary 50mm wide panicles or corymbs to 20 flowers with ribbed glabrate bracts, scented purplish, pink or white flowers 6mm long with puberulent bracts 2.5mm long, corolla to 4.5mm long, tube 1.5mm long, throat 1.5mm long, teeth 0.4mm long. Glabrous brown achenes to 3mm long with white pappus bristles 3mm long.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- RHS A-Z
- Mobot
- NYBG
- FB
- JPS
- FL
- The Plant List 2
- Elmer
- FS
- FOTA
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- USNH
- FOL
- SAFIO
- Global Species
- Holmes