Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Aristolochiaceae
Isotrema macrophyllum

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Aristolochiaceae
Aristolochia macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Aristolochiaceae
062-01-001
Aristolochia macrophylla

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

Common Name:
Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine

Vine
Perennial
Deciduous

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in cove forests & other mountain mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Spring/Summer
Maroon/Yellow-brown
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical calyx
3-merous
Calyx tubular with spreading 3-lobed limb
petals usually absent

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p135
Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p219
Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p044
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p057
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p053
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p061
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p030
Wildflowers of Tennessee p027
Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley & the Southern Appalachians p046
Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p21




You may also want to check Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina

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image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm0505k_08


May
Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm100626_121


June
Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands

Flowers are formed by fleshy tubular S-curved cayxes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.

 

image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm060805_217


August
Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm060805_221


August
Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm080802_156


August
Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

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

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm0311c_01


November
Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Aristolochia macrophylla, image of Isotrema macrophyllum
JK Marlow      jkm0311c_03


November
Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

It's a big leaf: The toe provides some scale.

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

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