Index / Search / Matelea biflora
§1 Plant
Matelea biflora (Raf.) Woodson
vernacular star milkvine — species · Asclepiadaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
- Genus
- Matelea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 26 counties across 1 state§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 26 counties across 1 state.
Texas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Blanco 48031
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Coleman 48083
- Concho 48095
- Coryell 48099
- Crockett 48105
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Erath 48143
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hardeman 48197
- Kinney 48271
- McLennan 48309
- Menard 48327
- Montague 48337
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Throckmorton 48447
- Travis 48453
- Upshur 48459
- Wise 48497
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MABI6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3572606 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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