Smilax herbacea

Family:
Liliaceae
Common Name(s):
Carrion flower
Flowering Time:
May to June
Fruit/Seed Maturation Sign:
Berries turn purple
Fruit/Seed Collection Dates:
October through winter
Seed Cleaning:
Remove seeds from pulp
Storage:
Unknown if the seeds tolerate dry storage
Restoration Potential:
Low
Notes

Produces few fruits and seeds per plant (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991). Seeds stored in cold, moist sphagnum upon collection deteriorated; seeds sowed outside did not germinate (Mabry and Mottl, personal observation).

Root tuberous (Runkel and Bull 2009).

Carrion flower (Smilax herbacea) flower

Carrion flower (Smilax herbacea) leaf