Mikania scandens (L.) Willd. - Climbing Hempvine


 

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Mikania scandens - (image 1 of 5)

 

Taxonomy

Family: Asteraceae

Habitat

Swampy woods, pond margins, creeksides and streambanks.

Associates

 

 Distribution

On the coastal plain or near the coast from ME to FL, IL, and TX, south to tropical America; locally inland to MI, IN, and KY.

Morphology

Herbaceous twining vine from fleshy, fascicled roots; stems to 5 m, puberulent; leaves opposite, petiolate, deeply cordate, acuminate, entire or sinuately few-toothed, palmately veined, to 14 cm; inflorescences small and numerous, corybiform, on axillary peduncles; heads discoid, 4-flowered; involucres 4-5.5 mm, narrow; principle involucral bracts 4 and occasionally a few shorter outer ones; flowers white or pinkish, all tubular and perfect; achenes 4-angled, 1.5-2.5 mm; pappus a single series of numerous capillary bristles.

Notes

Flowers July to October

Wetland indicator: OBL

Usually found climbing on shrubs by twining stems.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States
and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

 


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