Bitterroot Restoration

Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae

Common name: Bichtarak(Beng.); Elephant Creeper(Eng.).
Edible Parts: Root, Leaves
Life cycle: Perennial
Native Range: Native to the Indian subcontinent and introduced to numerous areas worldwide, including Hawaii, Africa and the Caribbean.

Argyreia nervosa is a rare example of a plant whose hallucinogenic properties have only recently been discovered by non-Hawaiians. This plant is a very large climber with stout, white tomentose stem.  Leaves are cordate, acute, glabrous about 18-30cin long.  Flowers rose purple and glabrous present in subcapitate cymes; peduncles long, stout, white-tomentose; bracts large ovate-lanceolate; pedicels short, white - tomen tose; sepals ovate to bi-oadly ovate. Fruit 2cm long subglobose, apiculate. Seed dark to light brown, glabrous.