Smilax pseudochina
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Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
NRCS |
| Botanical name: | Smilax pseudochina |
| Common name: | bamboo vine |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Smilacaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | climbing vine |
| Flowering time: | bloom late May to July; fruit late July to July |
| Habitat: | low, moist, sandy soil of open woods and shaded edges; wet meadows and bogs |
| Range in New Jersey: | local throughout the Coastal Plains except the coast strip, and north to Middlesex county |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | SL, H3 |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc.: | The only Smilax in New Jersey with no thorns. Hough says "Nomenclature confused; old records are unreliable because part of the S. pseudo-china as used in the old literature applies to what is now called S. hispida=S. tamnoides var. hispida" (354). |