The first one is Wandering Jew or Asiatic dayflower, a wildflower or weed, depending on your perspective. I'm not sure about the second, but wonder if it is Cinnamon Vine. Does it smell like cinnamon?

Ugh, both of those are utter thugs in my yard. First one is asiastic day flower. If you leave ONE of them, the next year you will have 1,000.

Asiatic Dayflower

Second one I always refer to as bindweed, but I believe it is honey vine. It is in the milkweed family, but I'd rather have milkweed!

Honeyvine

Yep, the second is definitely honeyvine milkweed. It will engulf entire shrubs if you don't keep it in check. I have sprouts of it everywhere in my yard, and it's relentless. I have a bunch of the first weed, too, but at least it's easier to yank out.

Ok, not cinammon vine, which is also very prolific down in our woods.

It seems like honeyvine milkweed grows on just about every chain link fence and half the shrubs in Oklahoma. I've had it persist since day 1 of moving here decades ago. Aphids love it just like they love any milkweed so pulling it off fences and out of shrubs to getting rid of it is always gross causing slimy stained orange hands.

We used to make boats out of the pods as kids and blow the seeds in the wind. You could say we helped spread it about.

I've posted this thought several times on GW and never received a response. You hear all this talk about milkweed shortages and the effect on monarch populations. Its not that I am disagreeing with that, its good to plant milkweed and I support that but.....with all that honey milkweed trying to take over anything it can wind itself around along with the fact that its near impossible to get rid of, I wonder if the milkweed crisis is as much of a crisis as people say. Whenever I've brought it up no one ever responds. Maybe they interpret the question as being argumentative and an attempt to throw cold water on their campaign to plant milkweed? I'm not.

As far as milkweeds go, there are decorative types and its become a fad born out of concern for the monarchs to plant them, however, seeing so much of this vine which seems to grow just about everywhere to the point of ridiculous, I really wonder if the lack of milkweed aspect of the problem is a bit simplistic? The numbers are definitely down but I bet the bigger culprit is other things, like herbicides, for example.

Its good to plant milkweed and I support doing that but I still wonder since the vine is so prolific and common everywhere.

nowyousedum, On the up side, if anyone asks "Got Milkweed?" You can tell em you do.

Thanks, everyone! I thought the 2nd was some kind of bindweed, but wasn't sure. It sure smells nice, but no, not like cinnamon.

Texasranger2...lol!

has anyone ever SEEN monarch caterpillars eating the honeyvine? I haven't...and I certainly have plenty for them to munch on!

I've seen them eating it, I've seen whole vines defoliated (solves the ugly aphid problem) leaving only the stems & seed pods in tact. We used to find chrysalis's on the vines as kids, matter of fact, that was where we always looked first. Personally, I find it comforting to know such a tenacious vine that's so hard to control or kill helps the monarchs, seems to give them half a chance by my way of thinking.
Milkweed vine

Good to know! I never get mine all pulled.