Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses

HEDGE CORNBIND

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Fallopia scandens (L. ) Holub

[=Polygonum scandens L.]

Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri

Perennial

Height: Vines, 40 to 200 inches

Family: Polygonaceae - Buckwheat Family

Flowering Period: June, July, August, September

Also Called:

Climbing false-buckwheat.

Stems:

Climbing or sprawling, branched, glabrous or papillose to rough.

Leaves:

Cauline, alternate; ocrea usually deciduous, tan to brown, cylindric to funnelform, 1/25 to 1/4 inch, margins oblique; petiole .2 to 4 inches, glabrous or rough; blade cordate or deltate, .8 to 5.6 inches long, .8 to 2.8 inches wide, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins rough, tip acuminate, surfaces glabrous or papillose to rough.

Inflorescences:

Raceme-like, axillary, erect to spreading, .4 to 11 inches; peduncle 0 to 2.8 inches, rough.

Flowers:

3-6 per fascicle; pedicels ascending to spreading or reflexed, articulated distally, 1/6 to 1/3 inch, glabrous; perianth persisting and enlarging with age, greenish white or pink, 1/4 to 3/5 inch in fruit, broadly winged on angles; tepals 5, united nearly completely or only basally, elliptic to obovate, dimorphic, outer 3 tepals winged or keeled, larger than inner 2; stamens 8; styles 3, united completely or nearly.

Fruits:

Achenes dark brown to black, 3-angled, 1/12 to 1/4 inch, shiny.

Habitat:

Thickets, edges of forests and woodlands, fence rows, waste places

Distribution:

Nearly statewide

Origin:

Native

Comments:

Named for Gabriello Fallopio, Italian anatomist.

Hedge cornbind