Taxon: Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.

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A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• climbing hempvine   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• climbing hempweed   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• louse-plaster   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• guaco-do-jardim   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• guaco-do-quintal   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• guaco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Comp Newsl 42:53. 2005)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (mostly of unknown importance fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Tamaulipas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas

• also cultivated

References:

• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farr, E. R. et al., eds. 1979. Index nomina genericorum.; suppl. 1986
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holmes, W. C. 1990. The genus Mikania (Compositae-Eupatorieae) in Mexico. Sida, Bot. Misc. 5:34.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kayode, J. 2005. Ethnobotanical survey and conservation of medicinal Compositae species in Benin Kingdom, Nigeria. In: Källersjö, M., ed., Compositae newsletter. Columbus, OH [etc.]. 42:53.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Turner, B. L. 1997. The comps of Mexico: a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Volume 1: Eupatoreae. Phytologia Mem. 11:160.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mikania scandens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mikania scandens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mikania scandens.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Eupatorium scandens L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Willoughbya scandens (L.) Kuntze
  

Check other web resources for Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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