NOT A BUG: Although the new shoots of the greenbrier plant, or Smilax, resemble a creepy critter, the plant is actually a wild edible that is readily found in Western North Carolina. We’re only a ...

The sieve elements of Smilax rotundifolia are long slender cells with sieve plates which range from transverse and simple to very oblique and much compounded. At maturity the enucleate sieve element ...

Question: What is the name of the vining weed that has spines, grows to the top of trees and has large potato-like tubers? The leaves are arrowhead-shaped, very dark green and it’s almost impossible ...

"Wait a minute, I'm caught." You hear this expression frequently when threading through a stickery thicket of "Round-leaf catbrier," Smilax rotundifolia. on a winter hike in the woods. That gives us a ...

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- a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny ...

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