Decumaria barbara Canopy Trees The plant colonizes beach dunes

The plant colonizes beach dunes

some reaching five inches

Native to the desert Southwest

'Suwanee Squat' keeps clean

and steadfast in quiet beauty

Decumaria barbara Canopy Trees The plant colonizes beach dunesDecumaria barbara, the native woodvamp or wild climbing hydrangea, is a self clinging woody vine of the southeastern United States, grown for glossy foliage and flat, creamy white flower clusters that echo those of the true hydrangeas in early summer. In the wild the vine belongs to wet bottomland forests and swamp margins, and also climbs in the rich, moist coves of the southern Appalachians, hauling itself up tree trunks on hairy aerial rootlets,