Ampelopsis cordata Michx.

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4. AMPEL6PSIS Michx.
Vines with few tendrils. Leaves alternate, simple to bipinnate. Flowers
mostly perfect, cymose. Sepals and petals 5, the latter distinct, expanding.
Disk present, entire or undulate. Ovary’ 2-ceIled; ovules 2 in each cell;
style slender. Berry nearly dry. Seeds 2-4.
1. A. cordata Michx. A high-climbing vine, with forking tendrils and
Warty bark; leaves simple, ovate or triangular-ovate, 4-12 cm. long, acuminate,
acutely serrate, truncate or subcordate at the base, glabrous or sparingly pu-
bescent beneath; cymes slender-peduncled, 3-8 cm. broad ; berries subglobose,
6-8 tyitw- broad, bluish or greenish. Cissus Amvelovsis Pers. [Of]. River banks:
Va.—se Neb.—-Kans.—Tex,.—Fla. Austral. My-Je.
Cordate Cissus.
Mohr GliH 6: 611
npelopsiB cordata Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 1:159« 1803.
Cissus ampelopsis Pers. Syn. 1:142. 1805.
Vitis indivisa Willd. Berl. Baumg. ed. 2,538. 1811.
ill. Sk. 1:305. Gray, Man. ed. 6,114. Chap. FI. 71. .Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:63.
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia south to Florida, west to
Arkansas and southern Missouri.	'
Alabama : Over the State in the valleys to the coast. Eiver banks. Franklin
CounTyffeussellville. Tuscaloosa County (E.A. Smith). Dallas County, Big Prairie
Creek. Monroe County, Claiborne. Baldwin and Mobile counties*, Frequent,
climbing over bushes 6 to 8 feet, high.
Type locality: “ Mab. in dumetosis regionis Illinoensis et ad ripas amnis Savan-
nah.”	'	’	' •
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr.
1901
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Plants of MARYLAND, U.S.A.
EASTERN SHORE
Ampelopsis cordata Michaux
CAROLINE CO.: Town of Preston, along railroad
tracks between Back Landing Road and Hunting Creek.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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