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Like its common names suggest, Smilax rotundifolia is a green vine with thorns. It is a crawling vine that can tangle itself within other plants and climb with small tendrils. [7] The plant can grow up to 20 feet long by climbing objects and vegetation. If there is nothing for it to climb upon it will grow along the ground.
The species grow 1 to 12 metres (3 to 39 ft) tall, scrambling over other plants with their spiky thorns. They are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season . The leaves are alternate, simple ovate-acuminate, 4–13 cm (1.6–5.1 in) long and 2–6 cm (0.79–2.4 in) broad.
Crataegus pennsylvanica, known as the Pennsylvania thorn, [2] is a species of hawthorn native to Delaware, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, [2] that grows to about 8 m in height. [2] The mature trees have few thorns. [2]
Smilax is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. [1] They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family Smilacaceae, native throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Crataegus (/ k r ə ˈ t iː ɡ ə s /), [2] commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, [3] thornapple, [4] May-tree, [5] whitethorn, [5] Mayflower or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, [6] native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America.
Crataegus phaenopyrum is a species of hawthorn commonly known as Washington hawthorn or Washington thorn. [2] It is widely grown as an ornamental plant, and can reach 10 m (about 32 feet) in height. The small red berry-like fruit grow closely together in large clusters and are food for squirrels and birds. They have a mild flavor and can be ...
Dioscorea villosa is a species of twining tuberous vine which is native to eastern North America. It is commonly known as wild yam, colic root, rheumatism root, devil's bones, and fourleaf yam. [4] It is common and widespread in a range stretching from Texas and Florida north to Minnesota, Ontario and Massachusetts. [3] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering vine in the grape family, Vitaceae.It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah, and south to eastern Mexico and Guatemala.