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Stems climbing; herbage glabrous and glaucous; lvs mostly compound, but simple ones often also present, the latter ovate to broadly cordate-ovate, subsessile, the former with 4–5 pairs of lance-ovate to cordate-ovate lfls, the lower pairs sometimes 3-lobed, the upper pairs progressively smaller, all thin, not strongly reticulate; cal urceolate; sep lance-ovate, 1.5–2.5 cm, shortly caudate acuminate, deep cherry red, glabrous on the back, tomentose on the margins; mature style 4–5 cm, densely plumose; 2n=16. Moist woods and along streams; N.C. to Ky. and Okla., s. to Fla. and Miss.; rare. June, July. (Viorna glaucophylla)
