Smilax pumila Walter. clade: B4. Common name: Sarsaparilla-vine, Dwarf Smilax. Phenology: Oct-Nov; Jan-Apr (and persisting). Habitat: Mesic to dryish hammocks and bluffs, sandy forests along streams, northward primarily in maritime-influenced mainland forests. Distribution: Ne. SC (within a few hundred meters of Brunswick County, NC) to c. peninsular FL and west to TX. It occurs on Colkins Neck, along the NC-SC border, in maritime-influenced forests with southern affinities, now largely destroyed by golf-course development.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Other Comments: This unusual Smilax is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental ground-cover.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, ETx1, FNA26, K4, NS, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tx, WH3, Bullard & Allen (2013), Coker (1944), Judd (1998). Basionym: Smilax pumila Walter 1788
Links to other floras: = Smilax pumila - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL
- Great Plains: FAC
Heliophily ⓘ: 4
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