Smilax lasioneura Hooker. clade: C1. Common name: Midwestern Carrionflower. Phenology: Apr-May; Aug-Sep. Habitat: Moist deciduous forests, hammocks, bluff forests, pine-oak hickory submesic forests and woodlands, rich beech-magnolia forests on lower slopes, perhaps only over mafic or calcareous rocks. Distribution: ON and MT south to w. VA (?), w. NC, Panhandle FL, MS, OK, and CO.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: Material from VA and NY is ambiguous.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, ETx1, F, FNA26, K1, Mi, NY, Tn; = Nemexia diversifolia Small – S13; = Smilax herbacea L. var. lasioneura (Hook.) A.DC. – C, G; = Smilax herbacea L. var. lasioneuron – Tx; = Smilax lasioneuron Hook. – Il, K3, K4, Mo1, WH3, Judd (1998), orthographic variant; > Nemexia lasioneuron (Hook.) Rydb. – S; > Nemexia tenuis (Small) Small – S13; < Smilax herbacea L. – Li et al (2013); > Smilax lasioneuron Hook. – Pennell (1916), orthographic variant; > Smilax tenuis Small – Pennell (1916)
Links to other floras: = Smilax lasioneura - FNA26
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Midwest: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Northcentral & Northeast: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 4
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