Heartleaf Peppervine
Ampelopsis cordataHeartleaf Peppervine is a vine native to Central Texas that grows 14 ft tall. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white in late spring.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Vine
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- About 14 ft
- Bloom
- Late Spring · white
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay
Where it grows
386 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.