General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also butterfly gardens.
Ecological Restoration Notes: An occasional element in hammocks and swamps.
Availability:
Rarely grown by native plant nurseries in northeast Florida.
Description: A twining, high climbing vine. Leaves compound.
Dimensions: N/A; a climbing vine with 8 feet in length or more.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Eastern and central North America south to Miami-Dade and Collier counties.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Wet to moist hammocks and floodplain forests.
Soils: Wet to moist, poorly-drained to moderately well-drained organic soils.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Light shade to moderate shade.
Flower Color: Reddish-brown.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy. Fragrant.
Flowering Season: Summer-fall.
Fruit: Inconspicous pod (legume).
Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host plant for northern cloudywing (
Thorybes pylades) and silver spotted skipper (
Epargyreus clarus) butterflies. Attracts bee pollinators.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed.
Comments: See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's
Flower Friday page.
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