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Yellow passionflower

Passiflora lutea

Also called Passionflower

Yellow passionflower
Photo: TheAlphaWolf, CC BY-SA 3.0

Yellow passionflower is a hardy, herbaceous perennial vine native to the central and eastern United States, grown for its small fringed yellow-green flowers and dark fruit. It is the most cold-tolerant passionflower and is best grown in moist, rich soil with a trellis to climb.

Family
Passifloraceae (Passion-flower family)
Grows as
Climber, Perennial
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect, Full sun
Water
Keep soil evenly moist, especially in the growing season, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Moist, rich, well-drained loam or garden soil.
Temperature
Hardy to about -15 °C, with short spells to -30 °C; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
C. & E. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Passiflora lutea, commonly known as yellow passionflower, is a flowering perennial vine in the family Passifloraceae, native to the central and eastern United States. The vine has three-lobed leaves and small, yellowish-green, fringed flowers that appear in the summer, followed by green fruit that turn almost black at maturity. It grows in moist to wet habitats.

It is also a host plant for the passionflower flea beetle (Disonycha discoidea).

Where it grows

P. lutea is native in the United States from Pennsylvania west to Kansas, and south to Florida and Texas. It is the northernmost species of Passiflora, occurring slightly further north than P. incarnata, and tolerant of winter temperatures down to −15 °C, and even −30 °C for short periods.

Other Passiflora plants

Sea anemone passion flower · Bracted passionflower · Passionflower · Passiflora ambigua · Passiflora amoena · Passiflora ampullacea · Passion flower · Passion flower · Passionflower · Passiflora arbelaezii · Passiflora arborea · Arizona Passion Vine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Passiflora lutea 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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