Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Liliales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Smilax smallii
FAMILY
Smilacaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina website.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Smilax smallii
FAMILY
Smilacaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-02-011:
Smilax smallii
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Smilax lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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Smilax maritima
COMMON NAME:
Jackson-brier, Unarmed Catbrier, Sweet-scented Smilax
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_smla2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_smsm_003_lvd
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Will Stuart wil_8393092447_ccaf4182e7
January Anson County NC
Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge
Berries dull red. Leaf base cuneate (vs. S. walteri almost always rounded), per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm160226_990
February Aiken County SC
Unless the name smallii is conserved it must be replaced by the older maritima, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm160226_991a
February Aiken County SC
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JK Marlow jkm150822_843
August Oconee County SC
Brasstown Creek Heritage Preserve
Upper stem greenish with sparse 3-4mm prickles, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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JK Marlow jkm150822_844
August Oconee County SC
Brasstown Creek Heritage Preserve
Stems green, terete, and usually spineless, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm150822_846
August Oconee County SC
Brasstown Creek Heritage Preserve
Lvs gradually contracted to acute or acuminate apices, base rounded to cuneate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm150822_847
August Oconee County SC
Brasstown Creek Heritage Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Smilax smallii
FAMILY
Smilacaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Smilax smallii
FAMILY
Smilacaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-02-011:
Smilax smallii
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Smilax lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Smilax maritima
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Climbing woody vine
Perennial
Dioecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in Carolina Mountains, common GA Coastal Plain))
Look for it in bottomland and riparian forests, upland forests, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, wooded seeps, stream banks, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems usually armed with prickles (twigs & mature fruiting stems often lack them
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Yellowish-green
Unisexual
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals
6 stamens in staminate flowers
Superior ovary
Flowers in axillary umbels
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Dull red then black
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p292
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p102
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p053
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p330
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p255