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Yellow Passionflower

Passiflora lutea

Summary 3

Passiflora lutea (yellow passionflower) is a flowering plant in the family Passifloraceae, native North America, in the eastern and south-central parts of the United States from Pennsylvania west to Kansas, and south to Florida and Texas. It is the northernmost species of Passiflora, occurring slightly further north than P. incarnata, and tolerant of winter temperatures down to −15 °C, and even −30 °C for short periods.

Barcode data: passiflora lutea 4

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


Flower visiting insects of creamy passionflower in illinois 5

Passiflora lutea (Creamy Passionflower)
(Bees suck nectar or collect pollen; wasps suck nectar; observations are from Robertson)

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum pruinosus cp np, Lasioglossum versatus cp np; Colletidae (Colletinae): Colletes latitarsis sn fq; Andrenidae (Panurginae): Anthemurgus passiflorae sn cp fq olg

Wasps
Sphecidae (Crabroninae): Anacrabro ocellatus sn; Vespidae (Eumeninae): Eumenes fraterna sn

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Patrick Coin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/42264328@N00/484147292
  2. (c) Rafael Medina, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/copepodo/9385615405/
  3. Adapted by Jonathan (JC) Carpenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_lutea
  4. (c) Barcode of Life Data Systems, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/30738786
  5. (c) John Hilty, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/31872809

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