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[[File:Snakevine (4202310009).jpg|thumb|right|''Merremia quinquefolia'']]
'''Merremia quinquefolia''', Five-Fingered Morning Glory is a herbaceous prostrate or climbing vine. The common name comes from the leaves, which are palmately compound with 5 leaflets.
==Uses==
{{Uses|achy joints}}, {{Uses|rheumatoid arthritis}}, {{Uses|scurvy}}, {{Uses|loss of appetite}}, {{Uses|upset stomach}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
Herbaceous or perennial twiner. Stems slender, scandent, glabrous or sparsely to densely hirsute with patent hairs. Leaves palmate, 3–5-foliolate, glabrous; leaflets sessile or shortly petiolulate, lanceolate, narrowly cuneate at the base
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==Photo Gallery==
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File:Merremia quinquefolia (4203071472).jpgFile:Rock Rosemary (4202315671).jpgFile:Five-fingered Morning Glory (4202309117).jpg
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==References==
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<ref name="chemical composition">[ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-74541-9_6 "sciencedirect"]</ref><ref name="Leaf">[ https://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Merremia+quinquefolia "wayback machine"]</ref><ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[ https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Merremia.quinquefolia "Cultivation of Mentha"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [ https://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Merremia+quinquefolia Merremia quinquefolia]
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:MenyanthaceaeConvolvulaceae]]
