Moonseed
Scientific Name:Menispermum canadense


NOTES: All parts of plant are toxic and ingestion of grape-like fruit can be fatal. Vine lacks tendrils, differentiating it from edible wild grapes, which have forked tendrils. Leaves peltate (petiole attached to bottom of leaf instead of leaf margin). Dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants).

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Moonseed
Genus species: Menispermum canadense
Common Name: Moonseed
Family Name: Menispermaceae  
Twining woody vines; leaves alternate, simple, venation palmate; flowers unisexual (plants dioecious), regular, greenish, in racemes or panicles; fruit of several drupes.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Vine
Flower Color:White
CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Herb Wall
Identified by:A. Swanson