Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fallopia cilinodis
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
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Read more about Fringed Climbing Buckwheat at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygonum cilinode
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Fallopia cilinodis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Fallopia cilinodis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Polygonum cilinode
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 063-04-020:
Polygonum cilinode FAMILY Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bilderdykia cilinodis
COMMON NAME:
Fringed Climbing Buckwheat, Fringed Black Bindweed, Fringed Bindweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tici3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fallopia cilinodis
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygonum cilinode
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Fallopia cilinodis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Fallopia cilinodis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Polygonum cilinode
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 063-04-020:
Polygonum cilinode
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bilderdykia cilinodis
2856
Herbaceous vine, trailing or infrequently twining
Perennial
Habitat: Around rock outcrops, in openings, glades, and open woodlands at high elevations, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
5-parted calyx
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Flowers in discontinuous clusters in branched racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black, lustrous
Nutlet
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p205
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p064
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p032