PINELAND

CLUSTERVINE
South Florida native, endemic, threatened
Pineland Clustervine or Pineland Jacquemontia
Jacquemontia curtisii
• Family: Convolvulaceae
• Communities: coastal rockland pine forests,
limestone outcrops, prairies (Southernmost FL
only); Everglades National Park, Big Cypress
• Habit: Semiwoody vine (branch tips
occasionally twining up surrounding plants)
• Height: stems grow to 3 to 6 ft.
Pineland Clustervine or Pineland Jacquemontia
Jacquemontia curtisii
• Leaf description
• Type and arrangement: simple,
alternate (usually alternate leaves
Appear to be borne on only 1 side
of stem (secund)
• Shape: elliptic
• Apex: blunt or pointed
• Base: may taper to base
(spatulate)
• Margin: entire
• Surface: soft green, glabrous or
pubescent with spreading hairs
Pineland Clustervine or Pineland Jacquemontia
Jacquemontia curtisii
• Flowers
• Perfect
• Symmetry: actinomorphic
• Sepals: 5
• Petals: White
• (or blushed with purplish pink), 5
• Stamen: 5
• Ovary: superior (2-carpellate)
• Solitary or cyme, clustered in leaf
axils
• Fruit type:
• Color: brown
• Capsule, 4-6 mm long
References

Class textbook.

Bell, C. Ritchie and Bryan J. Taylor. Florida wild flowers and roadside plants.
Chapel Hill, NC: Laurel Hill Pr. 1982.

Nelson, Gil. Botanical keys to Florida's trees, shrubs, and woody vines : a guide to
field identification. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Pr. 2011.

Ward, Daniel B., ed. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Vol 5: Plants.
Gainesville, FL: Univ. Pr. of Florida. 1982

Taylor, Walter Kingsley. Florida wildflowers: a comprehensive guide. Gainesville,

FL: Univ. PR. of Florida. 2013.

http://regionalconservation.org/ircs/database/plants/PlantPage.asp?TXCODE=jacq
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