Matelea baldwyniana
Matelea baldwyniana
Native to Alabama. How scores work Is it native here?
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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source
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At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom
This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.
Recorded in 7 Alabama counties.
Also found with this plant
Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food. 133 animals.
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blackburnian WarblerDendroica fusca
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
Who uses this plant?
2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including AL
Genus host records with ranges including AL · Matelea
- Danaus plexippusMonarch
- Danaus gilippusQueen
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- APOCYNACEAE
Conservation status
| Alabama rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| AL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Alabama Plant Atlas
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications

























