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Passiflora affinis |
Common Name: Passion Vine
Leaves: Glabrous; 2-10 cm long and 3-14 cm wide, usually lobed from a half to two thirds their length, cordulate or subtruncate at base, 3-nerved
Flowers: Calyx tube campanulate to cylindric; corona of 1 to several series of distinct or more or less united filaments rarely tubular
Fruit: Subglobose, glabrous, 8-10 mm long, purplish-black; seeds numerous, obcordate, about 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, transversely sucate, the grooves 6 or 7
Habitat: Limestone areas
Range: Edwards Plateau in Texas and northern Mexico
Group: Dicot
Family: Passifloraceae
Growth Habit: Vine/Forb/Herb
Duration: Perennial
U.S. Nativity: Native |
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Vitis mustangensis |
Common Name: Mustang Grape
Leaves: Broadly triangular-ovate to ovate-reniform, subacute to obtuse at apex, 6-14 cm long from top of petiole, about as wide as - or wider than - long, white-tomentose (felty) on both sides when young, later dark-green and glabrous or somewhat floccose on upper side and permanently white-tomentose on lower surface
Flowers: Thyrse 5-12 cm long
Fruit: 1.5-2 cm, thick, purple black, tough skin, fiery disagreeable taste, 2 celled with 2-4 seeds; seeds are 6-7 mm long and 6-7 mm broad, usually pyriform (pear-shaped) with a beaklike base and 2 grooves on the ventral side
Habitat: Along stream bottoms, thickets, fence rows, edges of woods, sandy slopes
Range: East half of Texas; Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama
Group: Dicot
Family: Vitaceae
Growth Habit: Vine
Duration: Perennial - shrubs or vines with watery acid juice, usually climbing by tendrils opposite the leaves
U.S. Nativity: Native |

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