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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Sapindales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cardiospermum halicacabum   FAMILY Sapindaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardiospermum halicacabum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cardiospermum halicacabum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 117-01-001:

Cardiospermum halicacabum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cardiospermum halicacabum

 

COMMON NAME:
Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed


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image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_caha13_001_lvd

        

image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_caha13_004_lvd

        

image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_halicacabum

August    Whitfield County    GA

Flowers 0.2" wide, borne in small clusters on long stalks from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_halicacabum_8

August    Whitfield County    GA

Fruiting capsule green, downy, inflated, papery, almost round to egg-shaped, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org    bug_1391459

Month Unknown        

image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org    bug_1391461

Month Unknown        

image of Cardiospermum halicacabum, Balloonvine, Love-in-a-puff, Heartseed

Michael Jordan, Alabama Department of Environmental Management, Bugwood.org    bug_5351098

Month Unknown        

The lance-shaped leaflets are coarsely toothed or lobed and weakly hairy, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cardiospermum halicacabum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cardiospermum halicacabum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cardiospermum halicacabum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 117-01-001:
Cardiospermum halicacabum   FAMILY Sapindaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cardiospermum halicacabum

 

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3039

Herbaceous vine
Annual/Biennial/Perennial

Habitat: Thickets, riverbanks, cultivated or abandoned fields, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native: south central US, south through tropical America

Rare

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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Ternately compound, with 2 levels of compoundness
Alternate

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Not symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
Superior ovary
Functionally unisexual

Flowers in axillary clusters

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Green
Capsule

 

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