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Passiflora incarnata
Purple passionflower with long fringe-like petals. There are over 500 species of passionflower, this one is among the most distinctive.
Open meadow.
Gulf Fritillary butterflies (Agraeus vanillae), whose caterpillars feed on passionflower, were observed in the same meadow: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/115...
Spotted on May 30, 2012
Submitted on May 30, 2012
4 Comments
Looks like jelly fish tentacles..pretty
love it !
Thank you! This was a naturalized plant growing wild in a large conservation area, I don't know how it originally got there though - either natural distribution of the seeds by wind or wildlife, or intentionally planted by an early settler who left nothing behind but the flower....
Lovely! We are lucky to have lots of wild passifloras growing in our hedgerow & drainage culverts. They are not a showy as this but the butterflies love them!