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Mikania micrantha Kunth
bittervine
Symbol: MIMI5
Group: Dicot
Family: Asteraceae
Growth Habit: Vine
Subshrub
Duration: Perennial
U.S. Nativity: Native

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State Distributional Map for MIMI5
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Plant Distribution by State

Mikania micrantha Kunth

MIMI5

Puerto Rico

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Related Taxa:
Mikania micrantha Kunth

View 440 genera in Asteraceae, 10 species in Mikania

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Classification:
Mikania micrantha Kunth

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
   
    Kingdom Plantae – Plants
       Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
          Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
             Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
                Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
                   Subclass Asteridae –
                      Order Asterales –
                         Family Asteraceae – Aster family
                            Genus Mikania Willd. – hempvine
                               Species Mikania micrantha Kunth – bittervine

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Noxious Weed Information:
Mikania micrantha Kunth
This plant is listed by the U. S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location.
United States:
        mile-a-minute     Noxious weed
Alabama:
        mile-a-minute     Class A noxious weed
California:
        mile-a-minute     Quarantine
Florida:
        climbing hempweed     Noxious weed
Hawaii:
        mile-a-minute     Noxious weed
Massachusetts:
        mile-a-minute     Noxious weed
Minnesota:
        mile-a-minute     Prohibited noxious weed
North Carolina:
        bittervine     Class A noxious weed
Oregon:
        mile-a-minute     Quarantine
South Carolina:
        mile-a-minute     Plant pest
Vermont:
        mile-a-minute     Class A noxious weed

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Invasive Information:
Mikania micrantha Kunth
        mile-a-minute
        Chinese creeper
        liane americaine
        kwalo koburu
        wa mbosuvu
        ovaova
This plant is considered invasive by the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each invasive plant list, or click here for a composite list of Invasive Plants of the U.S.
US   Plant Protection and Quarantine. 2002. Federal Noxious Weed List (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/bats/noxweed.html, October 20, 2003). USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Washington, DC. 2pp.
 
STATE   Assorted authors. 200_. State Noxious Weed Lists for 43 States. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
 

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Other Species Accounts and Images:
Mikania micrantha Kunth

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 36046.

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Related Web Sites:
Mikania micrantha Kunth

    Australia Northern Territories AgNote
    Australia-Department of Agriculture, Fisheries,
    Australia-Queensland NRM Facts
    Australia-Western Australia-Department of Agriculture
    CABI Bioscience
    Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk: Plant Threats to Pacific Ecosystems
    MO-MoBotGard TROPICOS
    NY-New York Botanical Garden Specimens
    PRC-Hong Kong Nature Conservation Practice Note
    Royal Botanic Garden Sydney abstract & images
    www.invasives.org

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