This next plant is a native, twining vine that has lovely heart-shaped leaves with palmate (radiating from the center) veins. The leaf is much smaller than another vine with heart-shaped leaves that I featured some time ago, in puzzler #214–Dutchman’s Pipevine, food plant for the Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar.
The vine from today’s puzzler is much less vigorous than Dutchman’s Pipevine and the leaves are considerably smaller. When it is first coming up it grows straight up in a bunch of circles until it finally leans over and finds something to twine around. The vine is hairless, the leaves smooth and without teeth on the edges.
The greenish/yellow flowers bloom in May but are rather nondescript and you might not even notice them. I didn’t until I looked more closely at one of my photos.
Check it out here:
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