Smilax glauca

Smilax glauca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Smilacaceae
Genus: Smilax
Species: S. glauca
Binomial name
Smilax glauca
Walter 1788 not Mart. 1823
Synonyms[1]
  • Smilax sarsaparilla L.
  • Smilax spinulosa Sm.
  • Smilax discolor Schltdl.

Smilax glauca, the cat greenbriar[2] or catbriar is a woody vine in the family Smilacaceae. It is native to central and eastern portions of the United States, where it is a common and conspicuous part of the forest vegetation. It is also common across much of Mexico.[1][3][4]

Smilax glauca has thorny stems climb by means of tendrils. Leaves are notably gray-glaucous to whitish beneath. Commonly inhabiting wooded areas and fences and often found growing with other species of Smilax. The plants tend to be evergreen in the more southern United States.[5][6]).[7]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ "Smilax glauca". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ↑ Killip, E. P. & C. V. Morton. 1936. Botany of the Maya Area: miscellaneous papers XII. A revision of the Mexican and Central American species of Smilax. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (12): 255–298,, t. 1–11.
  5. ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 473 Wild sarsaparilla, sawbrier Smilax glauca Walter, Fl. Carol. 245. 1788.
  6. ↑ "Smilax glauca". http://www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2009-05-30. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ↑ "Smilax glauca Walter under Conservation Plant Characteristics". United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
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