Taxon: Cardiospermum halicacabum L.

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:

AL*°, AR*°, DE°, FL°, GA°, KY°, LA°, MD°, MO°, MS°, NC°, OK*°, SC°, TN°, TX*°, VA°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum (no accessions)
• Cardiospermum halicacabum var. microcarpum (no accessions)

Common names:

• balloonvine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• blue passionflower   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English   [Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum]
  
• blue passionfruit   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English   [Cardiospermum halicacabum var. halicacabum]
  
• heart-pea   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• lesser balloonvine   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• small balloonvine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• winter-cherry   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• blaasklimop   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• ballongranka   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F LAnt; F Viti)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):176. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Equatorial Guinea - Bioko
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis - St. Kitts; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure, probable origin neotropics

References:

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• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. 2011. Review of Sapindaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 26 Mar.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Craib, W. G. & A. F. G. Kerr, eds. 1925–1962. Florae siamensis enumeratio.
• Dubs, B. 1998. Prodromus florae matogrossensis. Botany of Mato Grosso, series B, no. 3.
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• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
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• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):176.
• Pittier, H. F. et al. 1945–1947. Catálogo de la flora venezolana.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• 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.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
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• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cardiospermum halicacabum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cardiospermum halicacabum.

Synonyms:

• Cardiospermum microcarpum Kunth [≡ Cardiospermum halicacabum var. microcarpum]
  

Check other web resources for Cardiospermum halicacabum L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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