Mile-a-Minute Weed

Photo by Dr. John Meade, weed scientist emeritus
Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension

A high climbing vine with prickly stems. The flower is greenish and the fruit is blue and berry-like Note the bracts surrounding the stem. Found in moist soils and river banks as well as roadsides. Not at present an agricultural problem except in nurseries with wet soils.

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