Yellow Passionflower
Passiflora lutea
Yellow passionflower is a dainty native passionvine with small greenish-yellow flowers and purple-black berries, a shade-tolerant larval host for gulf fritillary and zebra longwing.
- Family
- Passifloraceae
- Type
- vine
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–12 ft
- Spacing
- 3–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- groundcover, erosion control
- Native states
- AL, AR, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV