Passiflora subpeltata | White Passion Flower | 5_Seeds Tropical Checkered-Skipper

Passiflora subpeltata | White Passion Flower | 5_Seeds Tropical Checkered-SkipperThis is Passiflora subpeltata, also known as White passion flower. This climber begins blooming in late spring and finishes in the middle of the Fall. It is a popular plant with all of the bees, birds, and butterflies. This is a host plant for the Zebra Long Wing, Zebra Heliconian, Julia Heliconian, Isabellas Heliconian, Banded Orange Heliconian, Mexican Fritillary, Scarce Bamboo Page, Erato Heliconian, Variegated Fritillary, and Gulf Fritillary

and Red passion flower

The evergreen vine has beautiful heart shaped leaves

Victorine Swallowtail

These mildly fragrant flowers have no petals but instead they have petal like sepals that give them their bell shaped appearance

North American Indians dries and aged the roots of this plant

From late Spring to the middle of Summer this tree has green and yellow blossoms

This is Aristolochia fimbriata

These red and pink flowers bring many birds

a yellow dye can be obtained from the roots of the Colorado barberry plant

Not only is this a larval host plant for the Monarch

and butterflies

This plant can get up to about two feet high and likes to grow in full sun to light shade where it attracts a wide variety of birds