I have a nice wild smilax, I think it's the herbacea, or a very similar one.
It REALLY looks like asparagus when first bolting!
Took me a good bit of work to ID, but it was a rewarding journey!
It's edible, the shoots, the roots the new growth, cooked and raw.
It's a source for wild sarsaparilla and root beer, on and on!
I've even read that many of the first prospectors from the old world, identified smilax and gensing as the 2 main potential plants to haven't for sale to the orient, but the unpredictable root of smilax proved too hard to dig and find... Gensing is $300-$900 a pound, smilax is practically unknown, go figure.
I really like mine, in determined to propagate mine, the birds knick the berries before I can...
