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Utah Swallow Wort

Funastrum utahense

Also called Utah Swallowwort, Utah Vine Milkweed

Utah Swallow Wort
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Tree, Climber, Perennial
Native range
SW. U.S.A. to Mexico (N. Baja California)
Climate
subtropical

About

Funastrum utahense, synonym Cynanchum utahense, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Funastrum of the family Apocynaceae, known by the common names Utah swallow-wort and Utah vine milkweed. This relatively uncommon perennial vine is native to the Mojave Desert from California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona in the United States. This is a small vine with a highly branched, twining stem rarely exceeding a meter in length with which it physically supports itself on other shrubs and trees. It has small narrow leaves a few centimeters long. Its flowers are bright yellow to orange and grow in umbels. The fruit is a grooved follicle several centimeters long.

Other Funastrum plants

Galapagos Sarcostemma · Funastrum bilobum · Wavyleaf twinevine · Fringed twinevine · Hairy Milkweed · Twinevine · Funastrum clausum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Funastrum utahense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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