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Matelea carolinensis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Woodson

Common Names

• Angle-pod
• Maroon Carolina Milk Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• District of Colombia
• Delaware
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Missouri
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia - U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• thickets
• riverside hedges

Flowering Times

• Late Spring to late Summer

Fruiting Times

Perennial hairy twining vine, trailing & climbing, with downy lobed leaves to 180mm x 150mm. Few to several-flowered umbels of glabrous 25mm brownish-purple to greenish-yellow unpleasant-smelling flowers puberulent without, lobes to 15mm long puberulent within. Puberulent seed-pods 100mm long with fleshy spines.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USDA
• Botanicus
• FOSEUS
• de Candolle
• John Leonard Riddell
• Kew