Upright Carrion Flower
Scientific Name:Smilax ecirrhata


NOTES: Monocotyledonous, herbaceous (non-woody) perennial, usually about two feet tall. Stinky flowers, smelling like decaying carrion. Blue-black berries, eaten by birds and mammals. Dioecious: male and female flowers on separate plants.

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Upright Carrion Flower
Genus species: Smilax ecirrhata
Common Name: Upright Carrion Flower
Family Name: Smilacaceae  
Perennial vines with tendrils or erect herbs, the woody vines with prickles; leaves alternate or whorled, simple, with 3-7 pairs of palmate veins converging at apex; flowers unisexual (plants dioecious), regular, in umbels; fruit a blackish or bluish berry (in our species).
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:Wildflower
Flower Color:Green/Brown
Identified by:M. Becus

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