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Bracted passionflower

Passiflora affinis

Bracted passionflower
Photo: Turner Brockman, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bracted passionflower is a perennial climbing vine native to central Texas and northeast Mexico, grown for its yellow-green starburst flowers and as a host plant for butterflies. It is hardy and fairly tolerant of dry conditions once established.

Family
Passifloraceae (Passion-flower family)
Grows as
Climber, Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Water deeply and let the top few centimetres of soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought once established.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates limestone-based soils.
Temperature
18–32 °C; hardy to about -7 °C, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Texas to NE. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Passiflora affinis, the bracted passionflower, is a species of flowering perennial vine of Texas and northeast Mexico. The vine has three-lobed leaves and a small yellow-green bloom with delicate filaments arranged in a starburst. It is a larval host plant for several butterfly species.

Where it grows

Passiflora affinis is distributed across the Edwards Plateau geographic region of central Texas. It occurs in the following counties: Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Comal, Edwards, Fayette, Gillespie, Hays, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Llano, Sutton, Travis, Uvalde, and Val Verde. It is also found in northeast Mexico.

Other Passiflora plants

Sea anemone passion flower · Passionflower · Passiflora ambigua · Passiflora amoena · Passiflora ampullacea · Passion flower · Passion flower · Passionflower · Passiflora arbelaezii · Passiflora arborea · Arizona Passion Vine · Norfolk Island Passionfruit

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Passiflora affinis 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.

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