Smilax auriculata

Native to Florida

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This native is a vine commonly found growing in sandills, flatwoods, hammocks, and thickets nearly throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 2003) . Earleaf greenbrier blooms all year and is usually occurs in non-wetlands (estimated probability 67%-99%), but occasionally found in wetlands (estimated probability 1%-33%).

Earleaf greenbrier may be found growing year-round, from dry sandhills to wet hammocks. These pics were taken on a north Florida Atlantic beach.

It is one of about a dozen Smilax species found in the state. About two dozen Smilax species range over the eastern two-thirds of North America; this species, earleaf greenbrier, ranges only in the southeastern coastal states (Kartesz, 1999).