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
- 16–16 ft
- Spacing
- 2–4 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- groundcover, erosion control
- Native states
- AL, AR, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV
Related native plants
More Passiflora species
- Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)
- Birdwing Passionflower (Passiflora tenuiloba)
- Fetid Passionflower (Passiflora foetida)