General Landscape Uses:
Vine or a fence or trellis. In a natural landscape can be allowed to grow up trees.
Availability:
Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description: Sprawling or climbing vine with leathery leaves. Fragrant, solitary, pinkish-purple nodding flowers.
Dimensions: Vine with stems climbing to 12 feet in length.
Range:
Southeastern United States south to Brevard, Osceola, Highlands, DeSoto, and Manatee counties.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Map of suggested ZIP codes from South Florida north to southern Brevard, Osceola, Polk, and Pasco counties.
Habitats: Sandhills, upland hammocks
Soils: Moist, well-drained sandy soils, with or without humus.
Nutritional Requirements: Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: High; does not require any supplemental water once established.
Light Requirements: Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color: Pale lavender to purple
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: Early summer.
Fruit: Showy white sprays
References: Hall (
2020), Taylor (
1998)
Comments: We have been adding data for this species for central and northern Florida and welcome any feedback or review. If you would like to contribute information or images, please contact George Gann via the IRC staff page.
