Aristolochia tomentosa Sims

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Aristolochiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Aristolochia tomentosa Sims

• Description

  Species Description - High-climbing woody twiner; lvs broadly round-cordate, 1–2 dm long and wide, softly hairy beneath, peduncles axillary, solitary or paired, 2–4 cm, densely tomentose, bractless; perianth bent, 4 cm, densely tomentose, nearly closed at the throat, the limb dark madder-purple, spreading to reflexed, subequally 3-lobed; fr cylindric, 6–8 cm; 2n=28. Wet, alluvial woods; s. Ind. to se. Kans., s. to Ga., nw. Fla., and Tex.; locally intr. in Mass. June.

• Common Names

  pipe-vine