Price's Potato-bean
(Apios priceana)
Description: A climbing yellow-green vine that grows from a stout, potato-like tuber. The vines may be up to 15 feet long with pale pink or greenish-yellow pea or bean type flowers which bloom from July - August. The fruit is a pod about 4 to 6 inches long. The plant grows in forest openings in mixed hardwood stands where ravine slopes grade into creek or stream bottoms. Plants often found with this plant include cane, chinkapin oak, basswood, and slippery elm.

price_map.gif (19496 bytes)Forestry Considerations: Since it grows in second growth timber, it appears tp withstand some harvesting. Site preparation using shears and rakes should be avoided where this plant occurs and some herbicides may damage or kill it.

Distribution by County: This plant is known from Autauga, Madison and Marshall Counties in Alabama.

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