![]() The female plants produce small, ¼- to ½-inch blue-black, black, or red fruit, formed in small clusters. Greenbrier vines are dioecious, which means there are separate male and female plants. Greenbriers are perennial vines and capable of growing under low light conditions, which allows for rapid growth beneath shrubs to become well established. They are evergreen to partially deciduous plants, produce strong tendrils at joints to aid in support, and are armored with stiff thorns along the vines. Many common names appear for these troublesome vines, such as catbriers, greenbriers, hogbriers, bullbriers, prickly-ivies, deer thorns, and smilaxes. In South Carolina, there are ten common Smilax species, along with five less common species. Smilax species (greenbriers) are difficult to control weedy vines that will entangle through ornamental landscape shrubs. Joey Williamson, ©2016 HGIC, Clemson Extension ![]() Leaves are large, shiny, rounded, and solid green. Here it is sprawling over Chinese privet along a creek. Smilax rotundifolia (called the bullbrier or roundleaf greenbrier) is one of three very common greenbriers in SC. ![]()
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