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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Berchemia scandens   FAMILY Rhamnaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Berchemia scandens   FAMILY Rhamnaceae

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

Berchemia scandens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Berchemia scandens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 119-01-001:

Berchemia scandens   FAMILY Rhamnaceae

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

Berchemia scandens

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack


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image of Berchemia scandens, Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_besc_001_lvd

        

image of Berchemia scandens, Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_besc_003_lvd

        

image of Berchemia scandens, Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

JK Marlow    jkm100508_028

May    Charleston County    SC

Drayton Hall

image of Berchemia scandens, Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

JK Marlow    s090716_080

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

A woody climbing vine with alternate, oval to elliptic-lanceolate leaves, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

image of Berchemia scandens, Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

Bobby Hattaway    rah_berchemia_scandens

August?        AR

Lateral veins nearly straight, evenly spaced and parallel, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

image of Berchemia scandens, Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

Sharleen Johnson    shj_5656144931169450

December    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Berchemia scandens   FAMILY Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Berchemia scandens   FAMILY Rhamnaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Berchemia scandens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 119-01-001:
Berchemia scandens   FAMILY Rhamnaceae

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

 

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2620

Climbing woody vine
Perennial
Apparently dioecious

Habitat: swamp forests, bottomlands, streambanks, also upland in mesic to even xeric forests, woodlands, glades, and prairies over calcareous rock or sediment, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Greenish
5-merous
5-toothed calyx
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blue-black
Drupe

 

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