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§1 Plant

Matelea gonocarpos (Walter) Shinners

vernacular angularfruit milkvine — species · Asclepiadaceae


USDA
MAGO
GBIF
7769759 syn.
Rank
species
angularfruit milkvine (Matelea gonocarpos)
Platephotograph · norah source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
Genus
Matelea
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 342 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 342 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 342 counties across 17 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 7 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 25 N
Florida view state ↗ 32 N
Georgia view state ↗ 22 N
Illinois view state ↗ 9 N
Indiana view state ↗ 10 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 24 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 58 N
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 18 N
Missouri view state ↗ 12 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 28 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 20 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 40 N
Virginia view state ↗ 34 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MAGO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7769759 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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