Index / Search / Matelea decipiens
§1 Plant
Matelea decipiens (Alexander) Woodson
vernacular oldfield 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
· 133 counties across 11 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 133 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Boone 05009
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Cleburne 05023
- Faulkner 05045
- Garland 05051
- Hot Spring 05059
- Izard 05065
- Lonoke 05085
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Ouachita 05103
- Pope 05115
- Randolph 05121
- Searcy 05129
- Sharp 05135
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Van Buren 05141
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Callaway 29027
- Camden 29029
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Cedar 29039
- Crawford 29055
- Dade 29057
- Dallas 29059
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Franklin 29071
- Greene 29077
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Maries 29125
- Marion 29127
- Miller 29131
- Mississippi 29133
- Moniteau 29135
- Monroe 29137
- Montgomery 29139
- Morgan 29141
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Phelps 29161
- Polk 29167
- Randolph 29175
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Francois 29187
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Texas 29215
- Warren 29219
- Washington 29221
- Wayne 29223
- Webster 29225
- Wright 29229
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MADE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8687899 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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