Smilax herbacea (Smooth Carrion Flower)
150 (250)cm, Smooth Carrion Flower from thickets and woods in North America is a herbaceous, climbing vine with a perennial root. Unlike other species it has smooth stems without any thorns.
Smilax
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common name for a florists' plant of two separate genera (Asparagus and Smilax), both of the family Liliaceae ( family, although some botanists recognize smilax as a separate family, the Similacaceae).
Cape Smilax, Smilax Asparagus
Scientific Name: Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Synonym:
Family: Asparagaceae ...
Smilax Aspera
Smilax Aspera - A well-marked species, with angular and usually prickly stems, reaching a height of 5 to 10 feet. In color the leaves are dark green, with flecks of white on the upper surface, and the flowers whitish and fragrant.
Smilax officinalis has a twining stem, angular and prickly; young shoots unarmed; leaves ovate, oblong, acute, cordate, smooth, 1 foot long; petioles 1 inch long, having tendrils above the base.
Evergreen Smilax
(Smilax lanceolata)
Can reach 30 feet
Very beautiful foliage. Excellent screen on trellises.
Uva de perro - Smilax aspera
Uva de raposa - Paris quadrifolia
Uva de zorra - Paris quadrifolia
Uva espina - Ribes grossularia
Uva salvaje - Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Uvaduz - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Uvas de América - Phytolacca americana ...
Used as a substitute for Smilax Sarsaparilla is useful inpulmonary diseases and externally as a wash for indolent ulcers and shingles.
It is one of about a dozen Smilax species found in the state. About two dozen Smilax species range over the eastern two-thirds of North America; this species, earleaf greenbrier, ranges only in the southeastern coastal states (Kartesz, 1999).
Asparagus asparagoides (Bridal creeper, Bridal-veil creeper, Gnarboola, Smilax, Smilax asparagus) is a plant native to Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, of the Asparagaceae family. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant.
smooth carrion flower
Smilax herbacea
globe-fruited seedbox
Ludwigia sphaerocarpa ...
companion of Ares; the doomful river-nymphs Lethe & Styx against whom even Zeus dared not stand; the Hesperides who marked the dawn for Eos the Saffron-mother; Apate the spirit of deceit; Lyssa who instigated helpless raging madness; & Smilax ...
Field Office Guide to Plant Species
Saw Greenbrier
Smilax bona-nox L.
Acer rubrum, Aronia prunifolia, Bartonia virginica, Gaultheria procumbens, Ilex verticillata, Maianthemum canadese interius, Osmunda cinnamomea, Osmunda regalis spectabilis, Populus tremuloides, Quercus palustris, Rubus hispidus, Smilax rotundifolia, ...
 See also: Green, Vine, May, Brier, Evergreen
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