Distribution: Occasional west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to Oregon.

Habitat: Thickets, forest edge, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Introduced from the Mediterranean region

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, hummingbirds

Twining vines, sometimes climbing to 6 m., with hollow twigs.

Leaves opposite, pubescent, weakly glaucous and short-hairy beneath, sub-sessile, broadly elliptic, 4-10 cm. long and 2-5.5 cm. wide; occasionally one or more of the pairs at the end of each twig grown together at the base.

Flowers in a dense, short, terminal inflorescence; corolla pale yellowish, tinged with purple, glabrous within, 3-5 cm. long, strongly bilabiate, the lips nearly equaling the tube; stamens 5, glabrous, the filaments attached nearly at the orifice of the corolla; ovary 3-celled, inferior.

Fruit a red berry nearly 1 cm. thick.