Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon
   Polygonaceae -- The Buckwheat Family Bibliography
      Antigonon leptopus

Common name(s): chain-of-love, confederate vine, hearts-on-a-chain, Mexican creeper, mountain rose
General Information
DistributionNative to Mexico.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
















Habit
 Climbing vines from an enlarged tuber like root.
Leaves
 Leaves thin, ovate to ovate hastate, 2-13 cm long, 2-9 cm wide, conspicuously reticulate veined, puberulent, especially along veins, apex acuminate, base deeply cordate.
Flowers
 Tepals bright pink to white, usually 5-18 mm long in fruit, becoming membranous.
Fruit
 Nuts strongly angled at apex.
Chromosomes
 2n = 14, 40, 42 44, 48.