| Author | (Turczaninow) Handel-Mazzetti | |
| Distribution | Scattered across the Mountains and Piedmont. Surely there are other populations out there.
Native of eastern Asia; in N.A. MA to Ont. and MI, south to GA and TX. | |
| Abundance | Rare, as far as is known. | |
| Habitat | Disturbed woods along creeks and rivers, floodplain forests, wooded slopes, campus woods. |
| Phenology | Flowering May-June; fruiting October-December. | |
| Identification | Winter-creeper is an evergreen climber, or may spread on the ground (or both at once). Leaves are ovate, mostly 2 inches long or so (but twice that in some horticultural forms), margins bluntly crenate, upper surface often mottled with paler green or just the veins pale. Flowers are only 3-4 mm long, white to greenish. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Our plants are var. radicans, sometime treated as a full species.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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