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Climbing Milkvine

Matelea obliqua

19
Modest

Native to Mississippi. How scores work Is it native here?

Profile 47%

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.

At a glance

Life cycle
Perennial
Leaves
Deciduous

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Bloom

Height and bloom: NC species account not read yet.

Spread, light and soil: no source found yet.

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 21 Mississippi counties.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

2CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS

Genus host records with ranges including MS · Matelea

  • Danaus plexippusMonarch
  • Danaus gilippusQueen
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
0BeesSoutheastern regional records
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Apocynaceae
Flower color
Red or purple

What its natural habitat tells you

Growing sources and scope
Also known as

Climbine Spinypod; Limerock Milkvine; Limerock Spinypod

Conservation status

Mississippi rankS2
Global rankG4?
MS statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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