Hedge cornbind

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Hedge cornbind

Hedge cornbind leaf

Hedge cornbind

Hedge cornbind

Hedge cornbind

Hedge cornbind flowers

Hedge cornbind

Hedge cornbind

Morphology

Stem

Climbing or sprawling, branched, glabrous or papillose to rough.

Leaves

Cauline, alternate; ocrea usually deciduous, tan to brown, cylindric to funnelform, 1/25 to 1/4 inch, margins oblique; petiole .2 to 4 inches, glabrous or rough; blade cordate or deltate, .8 to 5.6 inches long, .8 to 2.8 inches wide, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins rough, tip acuminate, surfaces glabrous or papillose to rough.

Inflorescence

Raceme-like, axillary, erect to spreading, .4 to 11 inches; peduncle 0 to 2.8 inches, rough.

Flower

3-6 per fascicle; pedicels ascending to spreading or reflexed, articulated distally, 1/6 to 1/3 inch, glabrous; perianth persisting and enlarging with age, greenish white or pink, 1/4 to 3/5 inch in fruit, broadly winged on angles; tepals 5, united nearly completely or only basally, elliptic to obovate, dimorphic, outer 3 tepals winged or keeled, larger than inner 2; stamens 8; styles 3, united completely or nearly.

Fruit

Achenes dark brown to black, 3-angled, 1/12 to 1/4 inch, shiny.

Ecology

Habitat

Thickets, edges of forests and woodlands, fence rows, waste places

Distribution

Nearly statewide

Additional Notes

Synonyms

Alternative scientific names that have been used for this plant.