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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Antigonon leptopus   FAMILY Polygonaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Antigonon leptopus   FAMILY Polygonaceae

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

Antigonon leptopus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 5 (2005)

Antigonon leptopus

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

Corculum leptopus

 

COMMON NAME:
Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita


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image of Antigonon leptopus, Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita

Keith Bradley    kab_a_leptopus_71364

October    Miami-Dade County    FL

Krome Bird Refuge

Tepals ovate to elliptic, outer three broader than inner two, per Flora of North America.

image of Antigonon leptopus, Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita

Keith Bradley    kab_a_leptopus_71366

October    Miami-Dade County    FL

Krome Bird Refuge

image of Antigonon leptopus, Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita

Keith Bradley    kab_a_leptopus_71377

October    Miami-Dade County    FL

Krome Bird Refuge

A climbing vine, unusual in Polygonaceae in having tendrils, per Flora of North America.

image of Antigonon leptopus, Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita

Keith Bradley    kab_a_leptopus_71377b

October    Miami-Dade County    FL

Krome Bird Refuge

Tendrils terminal and axillary, per Flora of North America.

image of Antigonon leptopus, Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita

Keith Bradley    kab_a_leptopus_71377c

October    Miami-Dade County    FL

Krome Bird Refuge

Leaf base usually cordate, margins ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Antigonon leptopus   FAMILY Polygonaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Antigonon leptopus   FAMILY Polygonaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 5
Antigonon leptopus

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

 

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3854

Herbaceous vine (base sometimes woody)
Perennial

Habitat: Cultivated and persisting; commonly cultivated, rarely persisting or escaping, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: tropical America

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink to purplish
5 petaloid sepals of two different sizes, united at base, perianth campanulate
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Brown
Achene

 

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