Pepper-vine

For special uses only. This tall growing vine can hide unsightly objects in moist places and is useful to providing cover for wildlife and food for birds. When grown on a fence or arbor, new leaves can be bright red in color.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Can get weedy.

Fruit is eaten by songbirds and small mammals. White-tailed deer browse the leaves and twigs.

Moist sites. Hammocks, hummocks in wetlands, hummocks in riverine swamps.

• Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
• Attracts hymenoptera (native bees and flies).