What is this vine?

[MacEntyre]

Wifey thinks she got a rash from it, so I pulled it up with gloves.

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[MacEntyre]

It has thorns.

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[Goofyfoot2001]

That looks like a yankee peril plant. Only goes after northerners. Where're you from?

 

[Les White]

Smilax bona-nox, commonly called catclaw or cat brier.

 

[GymB]

It jabs you, then the spots turn into little pimple/blister things. A little steroid creme helps.

 

[Jeppo]

I have about 100 linear miles of that awful menace.

 

[Grits]

Smilax bona-nox, commonly called catclaw or cat brier.

Or more commonly known as the "wait a minute" vine.

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[Catfish]

That’s cat briar aka organic barbed wire. I’m not aware of any potential for allergic reaction from contact, but it’ll fight back if you try and cut it. Last year’s vines (the dead ones) are even sharper.

 

[Coltdefender1911]

Definitely man eating venus fly trap. Liberally apply fire to rid yourself the carnivorous plant.

 

[MacEntyre]

That looks like a yankee peril plant. Only goes after northerners. Where're you from?

Wifey and I both be fum NC... must be cat briar!

 

[tanstaafl72555]

Looks to me like it escaped that hill in Mexico and is on your property.

It is just a matter of time before you are dead. Sorry, guy.

 

[RR]

Good book /\

Okay movie....

 

[RedneckFur]

That's Smilax spp. Its got a lot of common names. Cats claw, cat-briar, bramble-briar, green-briar, and many more. Its a common, native plant. You can find it all over the state, and heck, all over the south. It seems to be more prolific in eastern NC, and it loves swampy ground. Sometimes you can find them with round leaves, and now and then one without thorns, but its still the same plant.

Its nasty stuff to try and walk through, but I've never heard of anyone having an allergic reaction to it.

 

[RR]

I've had the thorn sticks swell up before. Body's inflammatory process trying to expell the little thorn tips that broke off in the skin.

@MacEntyre , is that maybe what your wife experienced?

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

Give every visiting Yankee a pot of that and Kudzu to take home.

 

[MacEntyre]

I've had the thorn sticks swell up before. Body's inflammatory process trying to expell the little thorn tips that broke off in the skin.

@MacEntyre , is that maybe what your wife experienced?

Could be... she's very sensitive to toxins, foreign biological materials, and such.

 

[cubrock]

Use it to make Sarsparilla.

 

[bondjamesbond]

Running briar.

 

[yard mongrel]

Since it's cat briar, it's a safe assumption there is Virginia creeper or poison ivy nearby, both of which can give you a rash.

Blackberry cane will raise welts where it pricked me, but disappears after about 20 minutes or so.

 

[MacEntyre]

No Virginia Creeper... even if we didn't look for it, it would reveal itself in the fall.

Very little poison ivy. I removed one small vine yesterday.