This vine has wrapped around a small blueberry bush. It's around lots of my plants this fall. Never seen it before. It's lovely and vigorous but smothers everything.
Another plant ID please
Hairy Clustervine, Jacquemontia tamnifolia
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=JATA&photoID=jata_004_avp.tif
Thanks a bunch for the information/link. I've never seen anything grow this fast, scary.
Wait! That's not it. The flowers on my vine look like bachelor buttons. I'll try to get a pic when I get back home tomorrow or so.
I think it is right check this one picture;
http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=jata_001_ahp.tif
That vine is as bad as kudzu.. be sure and close your windows before you go to sleep...lol.... they reseed a lot!
AJN and Frostwood nailed it. Ya'll are good, really good!
I wish I had pulled the plants up after the recent rains. At the rate they grow, there's no time to delay. What plant doesn't pull up by the roots will get round-upped. Mercy.
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Sorry for all the confusion and edits. Just a brain problem, can't blame it on the sauce!
Be careful of the seeds too. Seems like every seed will produce another plant.
It does make a nice bloom but watch out for this thug.
Rip it out before the seeds mature.
I discovered this buddy last Sept. I received the ID and warning from a Florida gardener where it apparently originated. It was delivered by the birds as it was all along the edge of the drive and under the power lines. It is all thru the woods and there is no way it can be ripped out in the rest of my natural days. Good luck!
Incidently, Kudzu IS in east TX also... only in a couple spots that I know of. But the one that amazes me is the Chinese tallow tree. I have found seedlings popping up all over and the nearest mature one I've see 4 miles away.
Makes one ask, what next!!?!
Well we have some kind of vine taking over and smothering trees along 59. It now in the entrance way to our community. I hope they take care of whatever it is. The only tree in our backyard is slowly being killed by a trumpet vine. It is so far in the process that when I moved in three years ago I asked a tree specialist about it and he said the hackberry is a goner. I really detest trumpet vines.
This pic is of the tap root on a young Hairy Clustervine vine.
...and here's some seeds. This multitasking vine sets seed and produces flowers at the same time, depending on the age of the blossum.
