Apocynaceae
Devil's potato
Echites umbellatus
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Echites
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Devil's potato
Synonyms
- Apocynum obliquum Mill.
- Cameraria echites (L.) L.
- Echites crassipes A.Rich.
- Echites echites Britton ex Small
- Echites littoreus Kunth
- Echites longiflorus (Griseb.) Miers
- Echites obliquus (Mill.) Miers
- Echites ovatus Miers
- Echites umbellata var. typica Woodson
- Echites umbellatus subsp. crassipes (A.Rich.) Borhidi & O.Muñiz
- Echites umbellatus var. crassipes (A.Rich.) M.Gómez
- Echites umbellatus var. longiflorus Griseb.
- Echites umbellatus var. umbellatus
- Rhodocalyx crassipes (A.Rich.) Miers
- Tabernaemontana echites L.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Vine
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native, Navassa Island: native
Photos
Photo: DouglasGoldman, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.