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Chinese vine

• The vine that ate the South

• Asian vine

• Comic strip by Doug Marlette

• Fast-growing vine

• Fast-growing vine of the South

• Fodder vine

• Intrusive southern vine

• Invasive Asian vine

• Invasive crawling plant

• Invasive Japanese import

• Invasive Japanese vine

• Invasive vine

• Marlette comic strip

• Marlette strip

• Quick-growing vine

• Southern creeper

• Southern vine

• Southern weed

• Spreading plant

• Fast-growing East Asian vine having hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long many-seed hairy pods and tuberous starchy roots

• Grown for fodder and forage and root starch

• Widespread in the southern United States