Apios americana

Botanical Description

Apios americana is a herbaceous perennial, climbing plant, sending out thin, branching stems up to 6 metres long from underground tubers. The stems scramble over the ground, twining into the surrounding vegetation for support. The groundnut is commonly harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It has occasionally been cultivated for its edible root and has excellent potential to become a commercial crop[ 95 Title Edible and Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada. Publication Author Saunders. C. F. Publisher Dover Publications Year 1976 ISBN 0-486-23310-3 Description Useful wild plants of America. A pocket guide. , 183 Title Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Publication Author Facciola. S. Publisher Kampong Publications Year 1990 ISBN 0-9628087-0-9 Description Excellent. Contains a very wide range of conventional and unconventional food plants (including tropical) and where they can be obtained (mainly N. American nurseries but also research institutes and a lot of other nurseries from around the world. ]. Plants can be invasive once they are established[ 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. ] and have become a weed of cultivated cranberry crops in N. America[ 269 Title Handbook of Energy Crops Publication Author Duke. J. Website https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/dukeindex.html Publisher - Year 1983 ISBN - Description Published only on the Internet, excellent information on a wide range of both temperate and tropical plants. ].