Smilax bona-nox, also known as saw greenbrier, is a flowering vine that is prickly with a one-seeded fruit. This plant prefers full sun but can also survive in partial shade. It prefers moist soil but is tolerant of numerous soil types. They are commonly found in wooded disturbed areas.

Smilax bona-nox (called the saw greenbrier) is one of the three very common greenbriers in SC. Its mature vines are armored with large, stiff thorns, and the stems are scurfy (i.e., with a scaly crust on the stem surface).

Greenbriar is a tough, woody, high-climbing vine in the Lily family. It spreads aggressively from long, slender rhizomes, which are horizontal, usually underground stems that often send out roots and shoots from the nodes.

Saw greenbrier is a prickly flowering native vine in the Smilacaceae (smilax) family. It grows in full sun to partial shade and prefers moist soils though it tolerates a wide range of soils including dry and overly wet, sandy, to rocky to high organic content.

Feb 10, 2017 · Greenbriers are not considered proper ornamentals, but essentially thornless forms of S. smallii, Jackson Vine, and the red berried S. walteri are interesting evergreen forms that can be trained to walls, chain length fences or even used as a short, linear hedge.

An aggressive, high-climbing, tough and woody vine weed that climbs trees and shrubs in east central Texas. Tendrils allow it to climb very high. Stems have spiny thorns and are hazardous …

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Saw greenbrier is a thick, woody vine that can form dense tangles and climb to the tops of trees. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen or even deciduous (drops its leaves entirely), depending on how far north it’s growing.

Jul 30, 2004 · Greenbrier (Smilax spp.) is a difficult vine to control in the landscape. Also known as Catbrier, Cat Sawbrier and Sarsaparilla vine, once this climbing vine develops an extensive underground rhizome tuber system, it is difficult to control. This publication describes successful control methods.

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