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Nekemias arborea

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) J. Wen & Boggan

Common Names

• Pepper Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• District of Colombia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Missouri
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• New Mexico
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• West Virginia - USA. to Mexico
• Puerto Rico

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• wooded riversides
• fields
• thickets
• swamp. Fruit reportedly edible
• but nauseous

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep Summer

Fruiting Times

• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Stout nearly glabrous climber with purplish branches, forked tendrils, with large 2x or 3x pinnate leaves to 200mm long, deeply lobed coarsely toothed leaflets to 30mm long, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Racemes of greenish-white flowers, 5-toothed calyx. 13mm across dark purple fruit .

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Mobot
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• USDA
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• USNH