Squaw Vine is a perennial herbaceous woody shrub, that is an evergreen with a creeping non climbing vine. The leaves are opposite, ovate to cordate with a pale yellow midrib. The leaves remain green throughout the winter. The flowers are twin white tubular with 4 petals covered with fine hairs. The plant produces scarlet berries that are edible but tasteless. The fruit ripens in mid July through October. The twigs are very delicate and barely woody, light green to brown in color.
Squawvine Care
Mitchella Repens
Other names: Partridgeberry, Pigeon Berry, Partridge Berry, Tea Berry, Checkerberry, Pigeon Plum, Boxberry, Running Fox, Twinberry, Running Box, Squaw Vine, One Berry, Winter Clover, Deer Berry, Deerberry, One-berry, Squaw Berry
What is the plant
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Lighting
Shade
Difficulty
Easy
How to Care for the Plant
Water
Requires consistently moist soil; do not let dry out between waterings
Sunlight
Plant the vines in an area with morning sun but afternoon shade.
Soil
The Squaw vine prefers acid soils under trees and large shrubs, in dappled shade with a rich moist soil.
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