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Cocculus carolinus |
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| Common name |
Carolina moonseed; snailseed |
| Family |
menispermaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z5-9)  |
| Flowers |
greenish white (summer) |
| Size |
vine to 14' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
Deciduous woody vine native to a broad swath of the southeastern and lower midwestern US. It has distinctively shaped leaves, and produces insignificant flowers in mid-summer, followed by pea-sized red berries. It climbs by twining stems. The common names refer to the shape of the single seed contained in the berries. In our Texas garden, it arrived as a volunteer, and has not (yet) proven itself a nuisance – so I have not (yet) designated it as a weed.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: right fence border About my plant portraits
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