Index / Search / Matelea obliqua
§1 Plant
Matelea obliqua (Jacq.) Woodson
vernacular climbing milkvine — species · Asclepiadaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
- Genus
- Matelea
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 135 counties across 14 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 135 counties across 14 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Anderson 21005
- Ballard 21007
- Bullitt 21029
- Caldwell 21033
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Crittenden 21055
- Edmonson 21061
- Fayette 21067
- Fleming 21069
- Garrard 21079
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Henderson 21101
- Henry 21103
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Larue 21123
- Lewis 21135
- Madison 21151
- McCreary 21147
- Mercer 21167
- Montgomery 21173
- Nelson 21179
- Owen 21187
- Perry 21193
- Pulaski 21199
- Rowan 21205
- Spencer 21215
- Todd 21219
- Trigg 21221
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Craig 51045
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Greene 51079
- Hanover 51085
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MAOB2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170496 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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