Smilax tamnoidesL.

bristly greenbrier

WFO wfo-0000742282 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Smilax tamnoides, photographed by Sarah Culliton
fig. a Sarah Culliton, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202421945
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by florawhite
fig. b florawhite, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204666542
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by Violet T.
fig. c Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200374753
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. d Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204294289
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. e Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198977187
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. f Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199862905
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by florawhite
fig. g florawhite, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199760578
Smilax tamnoides, photographed by lejones417
fig. h lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200104751

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 89 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 89 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dilax muricata Raf.
  • Smilax grandifolia Buckley
  • Smilax hispida Muhl. ex Torr.
  • Smilax hispida var. australis Small
  • Smilax hispida var. montana Coker
  • Smilax medica G.Kirchn.
  • Smilax medica Petz.
  • Smilax tamnoides var. hispida Fernald
  • Smilax tamnoides var. tamnoides

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.