Index / Search / Smilax pumila
§1 Plant
Smilax pumila Walter
vernacular sarsparilla vine — species · Smilacaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Smilacaceae Vent.
- Genus
- Smilax
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 181 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 181 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Baldwin 01003
- Bibb 01007
- Butler 01013
- Choctaw 01023
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Dale 01045
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Geneva 01061
- Hale 01065
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Macon 01087
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Perry 01105
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Bulloch 13031
- Burke 13033
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Coffee 13069
- Columbia 13073
- Decatur 13087
- Dougherty 13095
- Echols 13101
- Effingham 13103
- Hancock 13141
- Harris 13145
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jefferson 13163
- Lanier 13173
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Wheeler 13309
- Wilcox 13315
Louisiana view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Amite 28005
- Choctaw 28019
- Clarke 28023
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- George 28039
- Greene 28041
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Jackson 28059
- Jones 28067
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Leake 28079
- Newton 28101
- Perry 28111
- Pike 28113
- Scott 28123
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Tishomingo 28141
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
South Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SMPU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5295658 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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