Mikania scandens
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Mikania scandens |
| Common name: | climbing hempvine |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Growth type: | vine; forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | climbs up to 16' |
| Foliage: | leaves triangular, 1-5-1/2", slightly toothed, base notched |
| Flower: | heads in branching clusters, white to pink1/4" |
| Flowering time: | early August to late September |
| Habitat: | wet thickets, swamps |
| Range in New Jersey: | frequent in sandy swamps of the Middle, Coast and Cape May districts and at Swartswood Lake, Sussex County, and on the Ramapo River, Bergen Co. Absent from the Pine Barrens, except as a coast intrusion along the large streams (Stone, 739). |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | According to Stone, 1910, "This is our only trailing composite and
is found climbing over low shrubs, its stems twisting tightly around
the twigs and branches. The foliage reminds one somewhat of the
bind-weeds (Polygonum)" (739). |