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Smilax rotundifolia
Smilax rotundifolia
- Botanic Family
- Smilacaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Common Greenbrier
- Common Catbrier
- Bullbrier
- Horse Brier
- Green Briar
Geographical Habitats
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario - Canada
- Puerto Rico
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Colombia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachussetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- West Virginia - USA
Natural Habitats
- Riverine woodland
- hedges
- thickets
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Spiny tuberous tendril vine with angled stems to 6m armed with sharp prickles. Leaves to 150mm long becoming leathery with tendrils. Umbels with bracts, Male umbels to 25 flowers, females to 9 flowers. Green-yellow to bronze flowers, staminate flowers, sepals to 6mm long, pistillate flowers to 5mm, sepals to 3mm long. 8mm blue to black fruits
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Bean 1950
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- Huxley 1992
- FOA
- Mobot
- The Plant List 2
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- USNH
- SAFIO
- Kew