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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Dioscorea alata L.
Yam

Dioscorea alata
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Group: Monocot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Vine

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: Old World (tropical Asia); widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

Comments: For images, click on the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants link below.

Other data on Dioscorea alata available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

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Dioscorea alata
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr
Dioscorea alata
Copyright by: Hans van der Heiden, 2019
Naturalized in Florida City Pineland, Florida
Dioscorea alata
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr