Common Name: carrion flower, carrion vine, jacob's ladderScientific Name: Smilax herbacea L.Family Name: Smilacaceae - Catbrier FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative annual, reproducing by seed Stemsvine, upright, climbing with numerous tendril from leaf axils, unarmed without spines, glaucous (light whitish powdery coating that wipes off) Leavesalternate, oval with pointed tip, simple with entire margins, veins parallel and somewhat concave Flowers6-petaled, green to yellowish-green, smell of rotting meat; axillary ball-like umbels, long stalked Fruitberry, round and smooth, dark blue, round cluster resembling a giant raspberry