Smilax herbaceaL.

smooth carrionflower

WFO wfo-0000742555 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Smilax herbacea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. a Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203500182
Smilax herbacea, photographed by Jack Forrester
fig. b Jack Forrester, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205848011
Smilax herbacea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203355087
Smilax herbacea, photographed by Jack Forrester
fig. d Jack Forrester, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205826335
Smilax herbacea, photographed by rboles
fig. e rboles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202001482
Smilax herbacea, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. f Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200877474
Smilax herbacea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. g Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200296795
Smilax herbacea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198457967

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 325 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 325 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Coprosmanthus consanguineus Kunth
  • Coprosmanthus herbaceus (L.) Kunth
  • Coprosmanthus peduncularis (Muhl. ex Willd.) Kunth
  • Nemexia cerulea Raf.
  • Nemexia herbacea (L.) Small
  • Nemexia nigra Raf.
  • Smilax herbacea subsp. crispifolia Pennell
  • Smilax herbacea var. herbacea
  • Smilax herbacea var. humilis Farw.
  • Smilax herbacea var. latifolia House
  • Smilax herbacea var. peduncularis (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.DC.
  • Smilax herbacea var. simsii A.DC.
  • Smilax longifolia P.Watson
  • Smilax peduncularis Muhl. ex Willd.
  • Smilax watsonii Sweet

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.