Smilax pumila prophouse-fall-2026 Spicebush is dioecious

Spicebush is dioecious

John Bartram collected Xanthorhiza simplicissima from the Carolina mountains sometime before 1776 and brought the plant back to his famous Philadelphia garden

prominently veined leaves set off the flowers

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Smilax pumila prophouse-fall-2026 Spicebush is dioeciousDwarf greenbrier is the gentlest member of a prickly clan. Where most of the greenbriers, the Smilax vines, arm themselves with vicious hooks, Smilax pumila comes up soft and unarmed, a low, scrambling, evergreen groundcover of the Southeastern coastal plain, safe to handle and easy to place. The mottled, arrow shaped leaves hold a quiet, marbled green through the year, and on female plants clusters of bright orange to red berries glow in the winter