| vine snake | slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia |
leather flower vase-fine
vase vine
Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
peanut
peanut vine
Arachis hypogaea | widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions, showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground |
Nepal trumpet flower
Easter lily vine
Beaumontia grandiflora | evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers |
Dutchman's-pipe
pipe vine
Aristolochia macrophylla
Aristolochia durior | hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe |
Barbados gooseberry Barbados-gooseberry vine
Pereskia aculeata | West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits |
climbing fumitory
Allegheny vine
Adlumia fungosa
Fumaria fungosa | vine with feathery leaves and white or pinkish flowers, sometimes placed in genus Fumaria |
climbing hempweed
climbing boneset
wild climbing hempweed
climbing hemp-vine
Mikania scandens | herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers, climbs up trees |
cinnamon vine
Chinese yam
Dioscorea batata | hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers |
elephant's-foot tortoise plant
Hottentot bread vine
Hottentot's bread vine
Dioscorea elephantipes | South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark |
| gourd gourd vine | any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds |
pumpkin
pumpkin vine
autumn pumpkin
Cucurbita pepo | a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds, subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes |
squash
squash vine | any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
summer squash
summer squash vine
Cucurbita pepo melopepo | any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden |
prairie gourd
prairie gourd vine
Missouri gourd
wild pumpkin
buffalo gourd
calabazilla
Cucurbita foetidissima | perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit |
melon
melon vine | any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers |
watermelon
watermelon vine
Citrullus vulgaris | an African melon |
sweet melon
muskmelon
sweet melon vine
Cucumis melo | any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell |
cantaloupe
cantaloup
cantaloupe vine
cantaloup vine
Cucumis melo cantalupensis | a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh |
winter melon
Persian melon
honeydew melon
winter melon vine
Cucumis melo inodorus | any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell |
cucumber
cucumber vine
Cucumis sativus | a melon vine of the genus Cucumis, cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit |
luffa
dishcloth gourd
sponge gourd
rag gourd
strainer vine | any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits, grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge |
guinea gold vine
guinea flower | any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers |
bower actinidia
tara vine
Actinidia arguta | climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible fruit |
Chinese gooseberry
kiwi
kiwi vine
Actinidia chinensis
Actinidia deliciosa | climbing vine native to China, cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat |
silvervine
silver vine
Actinidia polygama | ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings |
ocotillo
coachwhip
Jacob's staff
vine cactus
Fouquieria splendens | desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers |
passionflower
passionflower vine | any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit |
calabar-bean vine
Physostigma venenosum | tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans |
groundnut
groundnut vine
Indian potato potato bean
wild bean
Apios americana
Apios tuberosa | a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers, important food crop of Native Americans |
| coral vine Kennedia coccinea | prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers, Australia and Tasmania |
winged bean
winged pea goa bean goa bean vine
Manila bean
Psophocarpus tetragonolobus | a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings, Old World tropics |
kudzu
kudzu vine
Pueraria lobata | fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds, grown for fodder and forage and root starch, widespread in the southern United States |
jade vine
emerald creeper
Strongylodon macrobotrys | vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana, grown for spectacular festoons of green flowers that resemble lobster claws |
silver lace vine
China fleece vine
Russian vine
Polygonum aubertii | twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers, western China to Russia |
trumpet honeysuckle
coral honeysuckle
trumpet flower trumpet vine Lonicera sempervirens | evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coraled or orange flowers |
canarybird flower
canarybird vine
canary creeper
Tropaeolum peregrinum | a climber having flowers that are the color of canaries |
| soapberry vine | tendrillimbing vine |
balloon vine
heart pea
Cardiospermum halicacabum | woody perennial climbing plant with large ornamental seed pods that resemble balloons, tropical India and Africa and America |
bittersweet American bittersweet
climbing bittersweet
false bittersweet
staff vine
waxwork
shrubby bittersweet
Celastrus scandens | twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds |
vine maple
Acer circinatum | small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets |
black-eyed Susan black-eyed Susan vine
Thunbergia alata | tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center |
cross vine
trumpet flower quartervine
quarter-vine
Bignonia capreolata | woody flowering vine of southern United States, stems show a cross in transverse section |
trumpet creeper
trumpet vine Campsis radicans | a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers |
love vine
Cuscuta gronovii | leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax |
cypress vine
star-glory
Indian pink Ipomoea quamoclit
Quamoclit pennata | tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves, naturalized in United States and elsewhere |
sweet potato
sweet potato vine
Ipomoea batatas | pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh |
wild potato vine
wild sweet potato vine
man-of-the-earth manroot
scammonyroot
Ipomoea panurata
Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
railroad vine
beach morning glory
Ipomoea pesaprae | a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas |
lace-flower vine
Alsobia dianthiflora
Episcia dianthiflora | low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers, sometimes placed in genus Episcia |