Facts about Allegheny Vine (Adlumia fungosa)

Adlumia fungosa (Aiton) Greene ex Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.:
Canada (North America)
United States (North America)

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National Distribution

Canada

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Global Range: Widespread but infrequent in eastern and central North America (Kartesz, 1999).

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Morphology

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Adlumia fungosa is apparently naturalized in southwestern British Columbia. It was reported to be "freely escaping" from a garden in Alberta (H. Groh 1949), and it is a casual, but usually not persisting, escape elsewhere.

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Description

Plants 0.5-4 m. Leaves 2-13 × 1-8 cm. Flowers : corolla white to pale pink or purplish, 10-17 × 3-7 mm. Capsules compressed-cylindric, ca. 10 mm. Seeds compressed-globose, lustrous. 2 n = 32.

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Diagnostic Description

Synonym

Fumaria fungosa Aiton, Hort. Kew. 3: 1. 1789

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Habitat

Habitat & Distribution

Flowering summer-early fall. Moist coves, rocky woods, ledges, alluvial slopes, and thickets; 0-1500 m; B.C., Man., N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.; Conn., Del., Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.

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Conservation Status

National NatureServe Conservation Status

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

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NatureServe Conservation Status

Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure

Reasons: Widespread but infrequent biennial herbaceous vine of the eastern United States that seed-banks long-term and appears after fire or other disturbance.

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Threats

Comments: Adlumia fungosa is mostly rare throughout its limited range and has been extirpated from some areas. It is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation and by forest management practices (Southern Appalachian Species Viability Project 2002). It is a long-term seedbanker, appearing after fire or other local disturbance where the seed bank remains intact (Judziewicz, 2001).

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Adlumia fungosa

Adlumia fungosa is a species in the Papaveraceae that is commonly known as the Allegheny vine, Climbing Fumitory, or mountain fringe. It is a herbaceous, creeping, flowering plant and is closely related to the Fumitory genus, Fumaria.

Adlumia fungosa is a biennial climbing plant with very slender stems. The leaves are several times pinnately divided, prehensile, and feathery in texture. The white or pinkish flowers grow in large clusters and appear in summer. The plant grows on wet and wooded slopes, and is native to North America, particularly the Allegheny Mountains area. It is a threatened or endangered species throughout its range in northeastern North America, where it has not been completely extirpated. This vine can grow up to twelve feet in length on wooded and rocky slopes.

The species name fungosa means 'spongy' in Latin.

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