Scientific Name: Mikania ternata
Common Name: plush vine
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous
Form: Mounded, Weeping
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich
Leaves: Lobed, Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Digitate (palmate), Oblong, Ovate, Rhomboidal, Crenate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Small heads arranged in a corymb, White, Yellow, Can flower any month
Fruit: Achene
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, palmately compound withe 3-5 leaflets each 1.5-4cm long x 1-3cm wide, pubescent, dark green with purplish undersides.