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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland
flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service. |
| Botanical name: |
Smilax pseudochina L. |
| Common
name: |
bamboo vine |
| Synonomy: |
| Nemexia leptanthera (Pennell)
Small |
| Nemexia tamnifolia (Michx.)
Small |
| Smilax leptanthera Pennell |
| Smilax tamnifolia Michx. |
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| Group: |
monocot |
| Family: |
Smilacaceae |
| Growth
Type: |
vine; forb/herb |
| Duration: |
perennial |
| Origin: |
native |
| Flowering/fruiting time: |
bloom late May to July; fruit late July to July |
| Habitat: |
low, moist, sandy soil of open woods and shaded edges; wet meadows and bogs |
| Range
in
New Jersey: |
local throughout the Coastal Plains except the coast strip, and north to
Middlesex county |
| Heritage ranking if any: |
S3, HL |
| Distribution: |
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| Misc.: |
The only Smilax in New Jersey with no thorns. Hough says
"Nomenclature confused; old records are unreliable because part of the S.
pseudo-china as used in the old literature applies to what is now called S.
hispida=S. tamnoides var. hispida" (354).
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Sources
**USDA-NRCS
PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An
illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British
Possessions. Vol. 1: 529. |
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