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§1 Plant

Berchemia scandens (Hill) K. Koch

vernacular Alabama supplejack — species · Rhamnaceae


USDA
BESC
GBIF
3039506
Rank
species
Alabama supplejack (Berchemia scandens)
Platephotograph · mayfly1963CC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rhamnaceae Juss.
Genus
Berchemia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 488 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 488 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 488 counties across 15 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 53 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 64 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 42 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 39 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 61 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 60 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 29 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 28 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 45 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/BESC ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3039506 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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