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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Yellow Passionflower

Passiflora lutea
native · Hill Country

Yellow Passionflower is a vine native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 10–15 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche soil. Blooms yellow in summer. Deer rarely browse it. Good for butterflies.

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The facts

4 sources
Type
Vine
Sun
Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
Water
Low
Height
10–15 ft
Spread
2 ft
Bloom
Summer · yellow
Foliage
Deciduous or dies back in winter
Soil
Takes caliche · recorded on limestone, loam, moist, sand, well drained
Deer
High — deer rarely browse it
Wildlife
Supports butterflies

Where it grows

Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:

Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesSan Antonio Prairie

2,022 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.