Gonolobus suberosus (L.) R. Brown

Angle Pod; Angular Fruit Milkvine; Climbing Milkweed

Vine

Perennial

Vascular

Angle Pod is a native herbaceous perennial vine in the Dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It can be found throughout Alabama. Angle Pod occurs in hardwood or mixed pine-hardwood forests, on creek banks, in thickets, and on roadsides. Angle Pod is a perennial, herbaceous, twining vine up to 9 feet in length. The stems are green in color and pubescent. Leaves are opposite, petiolate, ovate to elliptic in outline, cordate at the base, pubescent, and entire. Colleters (multicellular secretory hairs) are found near the base of the midvein. Both stems and leaves emit a milky white latex when injured as well as an unpleasant odor. Flowers are produced in racemes or panicles in the axils of the leaves. The calyx is 5-lobed with colleters between the lobes. The corolla is rotate with 5 narrowly triangular spreading lobes. The corolla is green-yellow and maroon. The fruit is a smooth, angled follicle. The seed are flattened disc-shape with a tuft of long white hairs. Angle Pod is a larval host plant for various Milkweed butterflies (Subfamily Danainae).—A. Diamond

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Native FACW (NWPL)

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