Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Vitales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Cissus trifoliata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cissus incisa
COMMON NAME:
Marine-ivy
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ciin2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_citr2_001_lvd
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Ron Lance rwl2174_a
May
Lvs 3-lobed or with 3 leaflets, succulent to subsucculent, coarsely dentate, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cissus trifoliata
FAMILY
Vitaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Cissus trifoliata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cissus incisa
2174
Woody vine
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - SC
Rare, the more northerly occurrences introduced
Look for it on coastal hammocks, dunes, in disturbed coastal areas, 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.
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple & palmately 3-lobed, or palmately compound with 3 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Greenish
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Black
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p092
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p102