Index / Search / Matelea cynanchoides
§1 Plant
Matelea cynanchoides (Engelm.) Woodson
vernacular prairie milkvine — species · Asclepiadaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
- Genus
- Matelea
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 41 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 41 counties across 4 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Atascosa 48013
- Bastrop 48021
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Cass 48067
- Cherokee 48073
- Frio 48163
- Hardin 48199
- Harrison 48203
- Henderson 48213
- Houston 48225
- Jasper 48241
- Kent 48263
- Lavaca 48285
- Leon 48289
- Limestone 48293
- Marion 48315
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Montague 48337
- Montgomery 48339
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Navarro 48349
- Parker 48367
- Rusk 48401
- San Augustine 48405
- Shelby 48419
- Tarrant 48439
- Tyler 48457
- Upshur 48459
- Van Zandt 48467
- Walker 48471
- Wilbarger 48487
- Young 48503
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MACY3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170486 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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