OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Piperales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Isotrema macrophyllum   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aristolochia macrophylla   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Isotrema macrophyllum

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)

Isotrema macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Aristolochia macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-01-001:

Aristolochia macrophylla   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Aristolochia durior

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Aristolochia macrophylla

 

COMMON NAME:
Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine


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image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_arma7_001_lvd

        

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm120426_736

April    Yancey County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm120426_740

April    Yancey County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm230525_3425

May    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Leaves are heart-shaped, 4-10" wide, smooth to slightly hairy beneath, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm230525_3431

May    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Peduncle 2-5cm long with a deciduous, perfoliate bract near the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm230525_3435

May    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Caterpillars of the pipevine swallowtail butterfly feed only on this family, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm230525_3439

May    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_macrophylla_z

May        

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

Will Stuart    wil_8771481827_6571c1aeb1

May    Madison County    NC

Pipe "face" is about 1" wide with 3 equal lobes and a purple-brown mouth, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm100626_121

June    Avery County    NC

The Roan Highlands

Flower is a fleshy tubular S-curved calyx terminating in 3 spreading lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm190719_0006

July    Transylvania County    NC

Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District

Plant nearly glabrous; leaves abruptly pointed (short acuminate), per Weakley's Flora (2018).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm060805_217

August    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm080802_156

August    Transylvania County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm111008_732

October    Jackson County    NC

Balsam Mountain Preserve

Fruit a 2-4" ribbed capsule with many flat triangular seeds, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm0311c_01

November    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

High-climbing, twining vine most common in rich coves and moist slopes, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).

image of Isotrema macrophyllum, Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

JK Marlow    jkm0311c_03

November    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The species name "macrophylla" means "large leaf", per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Isotrema macrophyllum   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aristolochia macrophylla   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Isotrema macrophyllum

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)
Isotrema macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Aristolochia macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-01-001:
Aristolochia macrophylla   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aristolochia durior

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aristolochia macrophylla

 

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Climbing woody vine
Perennial

Habitat: cove forests and other mesic mountain forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains of GA & NC (rare in SC)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Leaves cordate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Maroon/Yellow-brown
Bilaterally symmetrical calyx
3-merous
Calyx tubular, limb with 3 spreading lobes
Petals absent, usually
6 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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