Verify with 🔍︎ images.
Also called swallowwort and dog-strangling vine. Formerly called Vincetoxicum rossicum.
Among the various milkweed genus Asclepias and related genera. Part of genus Cynanchum in dogbane family Apocynaceae.
Native to southern 🇪🇺 Europe. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key). Invasive > learn+quiz Invasive > 🌐︎ global Invasive > 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada+USA Invasive > report it! Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA Invasive > Michigan (page 50)
🚸︎🚼︎ For kids! This plant described in invasive species placemat series.
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database) On No-Planting List by Seneca Nation of Indians SNI. (page 61)
This plant is particularly harmful in areas with the monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus, as this plant is similar enough to milkweed genus Asclepias and related genera to attract Monarch adults to lay their ⚫︎ eggs on it, but different enough that their 🐛︎ young (monarch caterpillars) cannot feed on it, thus eliminating these monarchs from the ecosystem.
Treatment methods and timing (40–45°N lat.) Management and Control (Wisconsin) (sister-species) Best Control Practices BCP (Michigan) Best Control Practices BCP (Ontario) and its Technical Bulletin Fact sheet (Ontario) 🇫🇷 en français Biological Control in Eastern USA (page 217)
🔍︎ 🔍︎ images Discover Life Encyclopedia of Life Michigan Flora USDA PLANTS db USFS Wikipedia
🏠︎ ⚘ ❀ flowers 🌾︎⚶⚘ ☙ terrestrial herbaceous plants
milkweed genus Asclepias and related genera