Other Common Names: Purple Passionflower, Purple Passion Vine, Maypop, Apricot Vine

Scientific Name: Passiflora incarnata

Native to Alabama: Yes

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Wynn Anderson
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• I am a climbing or trailing woody stemmed vascular plant, so I am a vine.
• I do not keep leaves year-round, so I am deciduous.
• I die back in winter but regrow in spring for many seasons, so I am perennial.
• I can grow up to 25 feet high and 3 – 6 feet wide.

• Dormant in winter.
• Flowers can be cut for an indoor vase.
• Vines may be trained onto a trellis, fence, or tree trunk; to encourage bushiness, pinch the plants back during their first growing season.
• When watering, hold hose to base of plant for a count of 5 seconds. Water should reach all roots.
• Avoid sprinkling water on the leaves.
• Requires average amount of water.

Full Sun
(6+ hours of sun per day)

Part Sun/ Shade
(2-6 hours of sun per day)

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Marcus A Joseph
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• All plants start life as a seed.
• The seed turns into a sprout when it grows roots.
• The sprout becomes a seedling as grows a stem and leaves above the ground.
• After the seedling becomes an adult plant it will grow flowers.

• After the flowers finish blooming, each flower turns into a seed.
• When the seeds fall down to the ground, the plant life cycle starts again.
• Each seed can become a plant if it has the food, water and space that it needs to grow.