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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Nekemias arborea   FAMILY Vitaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Nekemias arborea   FAMILY Vitaceae

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

Nekemias arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Nekemias arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synopsis of Nekemias, segregate from Ampelopsis (Wen, Boggan & Nie, 2014)

Nekemias arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Ampelopsis arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 120-03-001:

Ampelopsis arborea   FAMILY Vitaceae

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

Ampelopsis arborea

 

COMMON NAME:
Peppervine


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image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_amar5_001_lvd

        

image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

JK Marlow    jkm070414_022

April    Calhoun County    SC

Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve

image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

JK Marlow    s090515_21

May    Georgetown County    SC

Leaves bipinnately or tripinnately compound. Leaflets coarsely serrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE leaves of Peppervine, Trumpet-creeper and Wisteria

image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

JK Marlow    jkm140922_875

September    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

Plant glabrous or glabrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

JK Marlow    jkm140922_878

September    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

Branched tendrils opposite some leaves, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

JK Marlow    jkm140922_880

September    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

image of Nekemias arborea, Peppervine

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_ampelopsis_arborea

October        

Berries shiny red to black, dry, w 2-5 black seeds resembling peppercorns, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Nekemias arborea   FAMILY Vitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Nekemias arborea   FAMILY Vitaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Nekemias arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synopsis of Nekemias, segregate from Ampelopsis (Wen, Boggan & Nie, 2014)
Nekemias arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Ampelopsis arborea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 120-03-001:
Ampelopsis arborea   FAMILY Vitaceae

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

 

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Climbing woody vine
Perennial
Polygamous

Habitat: swamp forests, marshes, wet thickets, moist to wet maritime forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

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

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
2- or 3-pinnately compound
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Creamy-white
Radially symmetrical
Saucer-shaped calyx, lobes usually obsolete
5 petals
5 stamens, abortive in pistillate flowers
Superior ovary
Bisexual & unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blue/Black
Drupe

 

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