Milkweed Honeyvine. Starting as a long single vine but will branch the honeyvine milkweed can trail along the ground or climb. The elongated heart shaped leaves are simple and opposite with a smooth surface.
Starting as a long single vine but will branch the honeyvine milkweed can trail along the ground or climb. Honeyvine milkweed ampelamus albidus or cynanchum laeve is a true milkweed species and therefore a host for monarch butterfly larvae. However small infestations should be treated with a 2 v v roundup ultra solution before this hard to control perennial weed spreads further.
Also known as bluevine climbing milkweed dog s collar enslen s vine peavine sandvine smooth anglepod or smooth swallow wort.
The scientific name is cynanchum laeve but some still call it by its older scientific name ampelamus albidus. Although the name implies a secretion of milky sap as in other milkweed species asclepias spp this does not occur in the leaves or stems of honeyvine milkweed. An illustrated flora of the northern united states and canada. Also known as bluevine climbing milkweed dog s collar enslen s vine peavine sandvine smooth anglepod or smooth swallow wort.