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3021

Woody vine
Perennial

Non-native: southeast Asia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Waif(s)

Look for it in disturbed areas. It is cultivated and sometimes persistent or spreading, per Weakley's Flora

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Creamy-white
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
 Trachelospermum jasminoides   FAMILY Apocynaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Trachelospermum jasminoides   FAMILY Apocynaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine

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image of Trachelospermum jasminoides, Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine

Paul Thompson    psttrachelospermum_jasmi

September?        

Leaves ovate-rounded, tips abruptly acute, bases cuneate to rounded, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.