Identification Honeyvine Milkweed. Cynanchum laeve is a vining perennial herb native to eastern and central u s. Exaltata is one of our green flowered milkweeds but still quite easily told apart by its habitat leaves and flowers this species can grow upwards of four feet tall and can have multiple flower umbels that tend to droop and hang over.
Often the vine is mistaken for morning glory or bindweed but the insignificant flowers are the easiest way to tell the difference. Identification from early summer to fall if you peek under the heart shaped leaves of this vine you ll find clusters of tiny white flowers. It is a larval food of monarch butterflies and milkweed.
Honeyvine milkweed as well as common milkweed can look a bit on the wild side.
Roots from a clustered fibrous underground rootstock capable of vegetatively reproducing additional plants 4 2. Common names include sand vine honeyvine honeyvine milkweed bluevine milkweed climbing milkweed and smooth swallow wort. The weed s leaves can easily be confused with those of moringglories and bindweeds. The root system of c.