Common Name: arrowhead vine
Family: Araceae
Common Synonyms: Syngonium nepthytis
USDA Hardiness Zone: 10b-11
Growth Habit: Vine
Origin: Tropical Americas
FISC Category: 1
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: 1939
IFAS Assessment:
Rapidly growing vine with variegated arrow shaped leaves on climbing and trailing stems. This species develops large, compound tropical leaves with 3-12 leaflets when able to climb. When not able to climb, the species develops dense mats of 15 cm high plants. Leaves are alternate, simple, lobed, and evergreen. Flowers white in the summertime.
Disturbed hammocks, central and southern peninsula
Escaped from cultivation.
Breaks readily when pulled, roots from nodes, difficult to control, sap is a skin, mouth, and eye irritant, only spreads vegetatively, many populations are the result of discarded landscape material.
IFAS. 2011. Integrated Management of Nonnative Plants in Natural Areas of Florida. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/WG/WG20900.pdf Accessed June 13 2017.
Gilman, Edward F. IFAS. 1999. Fact sheet. Syngonium podophyllum. http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/database/documents/pdf/shrub_fact_sheets/synpoda.pdf Accessed june 13, 2017.
Wunderlin, Richard P., and Bruce F. Hansen. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. 3rd ed. Gainesville, FL: U of Florida, 2011.