Maypops
Passiflora incarnata
Variegated Fritillary caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 61 of Alabama’s 67 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 7 ft to 8 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple and white
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Vine
On a trellis
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Variegated Fritillary
- Caterpillars
- 6 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 18 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Southern carpenter bee (Xylocopa micans), Mining bee (Protandrena passiflorae), Long-horned bee (Melissodes communis)
Grows well with
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Inkberry
Pink Azalea
Witherod Viburnum
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Swamp Azalea
Facts from the Quercus record for Passiflora incarnata.