Certainly, Sleeping Beauty’s narcoleptic respite was secured by this plant. It is the very image of a noxious bramble which could be conjured up by an imaginative and resolute wicked witch. The sinewy ...

Smilax is an invasive plant and a garden thug. Courtesy photo Smilax is a native plant that provides food for more than 40 species of birds. It is an important part of the diet for deer and black ...

Q:Can you please identify these plants? They have sprouted from bulbs and have shown themselves to be vines that want to wrap around the tree they are growing under. It is puzzling that they appeared ...

A: Smilax is a vine exquisitely adapted to the South and our Southern gardening habits. If we could only find a way to make use of it ... There are many species of smilax, and I can’t help but point ...

Q: I have several areas of my yard that have sticker vines growing out of the ground. When I dig them up, they have a root that looks like a potato or turnip. Is there any way to kill these without ...

A slender stem bearing four leaves and a dozen tendrils takes little room on my desk but fills my mind. This plant has a Midwestern relative, and we experienced a bloody first encounter 49 years ago.

As the cooler weather prevails, I’m venturing into my yard to tackle the weeds that have taken advantage of this past summer’s bountiful rain. In our well-mulched beds, it is gratifying to pull up ...

Premise of the study: The genetic structure of North American herbaceous Smilax, a clade of closely related understory herbs that has a wide and disjunct distribution, was investigated to test the ...