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Maurandya scandens
Also called Pink Snapdragon Vine, Climbing Foxglove
Blue Snapdragon Vine (Maurandya scandens) is a climbing perennial from Mexico with snapdragon-like flowers, usually grown as a warm-climate ornamental or in pots that can be overwintered. It climbs or trails and needs a support or hanging spot to show off well.
Maurandya scandens, also known as trailing snapdragon and snapdragon vine, is a climbing herbaceous perennial native to Mexico, with snapdragon-like flowers and untoothed leaves. It is grown as an ornamental plant in many parts of the world, and has commonly escaped from cultivation to become naturalized. Other names for this plant include creeping snapdragon, vining snapdragon, creeping gloxinia and chickabiddy.
Cultivars include Joan Lorraine with velvety purple flowers, Snow White with white flowers and Mystic Rose with fuchsia flowers.
The original distribution area are rocky slopes, canyons and disturbed areas in tropical and subtropical forests in southern Mexico at 1200 to 2200 meters above sea level. The species prefers a medium-humid (mesic) biotope. It seems to have established its habitat from the north along the calcareous Sierra Madre and south into the volcanic belt. Due to human displacement, occurrences are now found worldwide.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maurandya scandens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
