Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Vitales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cissus trifoliata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Cissus trifoliata
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cissus incisa
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cissus trifoliata
COMMON NAME:
Marine-ivy, Sorrel-vine
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ciin2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_citr2_001_lvd
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Ron Lance rwl2174_a
May
Lvs 3-lobed or with 3 leaflets, succulent to subsucculent, coarsely dentate, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).
COMPARE
compound leaves of vines
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cissus trifoliata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Cissus trifoliata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cissus incisa
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cissus trifoliata
2174
Woody vine
Perennial
Habitat: Coastal hammocks, dunes, disturbed coastal areas, inland in exposed bluffs, glades, and rocky, open woodlands, disturbed thickets, agricultural field edges, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia Coastal Plain (introduced in NC, and possibly in SC)
Rare
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple & palmately 3-lobed, or palmately compound with 3 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p092
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p102
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