Florida Milkvine (Matelea floridana)

Flowers of Matelea floridana photographed in Citrus County, Florida.

Photo Credit: Vida Svahnstrom

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Apocynaceae
State: FL, GA
Nature Serve ID: 133682
Lifeform: Vine, Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Florida Milkvine (Matelea floridana) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Florida Milkvine can be found in Florida, Georgia

Which CPC Partners conserve Florida Milkvine (Matelea floridana)?

Bok Tower Gardens

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

Conservation Actions

Tina Stanley

05/11/2023

According to a March 2023 extract of the Florida Plant Rescue Database, Bok Tower Gardens holds 1 accessions of Matelea floridana totalling approximately 75 seeds.

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Known from approx. 20 occurrences in central and northern peninsular Florida and from a few reports from the Florida panhandle and adjacent southwestern Georgia (only one locality known in Georgia). The species' habitat is threatened by development, successional pressure, and exotic plants. Fire may be needed to maintain the forest canopy gaps in which it thrives, but clearcutting would probably lead to its disappearance.