Maypop Passion Vine: Edible Fruit, Butterfly Host

The wild vine with globe-shaped fruit used as "ammo" in childhood games is maypop, Passiflora incarnata. The sweet, seedy fruit is edible. It self-sows readily and can become a manageable weed.

Foliage feeds zebra longwing, Julia, and Gulf fritillary caterpillars. Cultivars like 'Lavender Lady', 'Blue Crown', and 'Ruby Glow' offer ornamental flowers. The frilly blue-to-purple blooms look great scrambling over shrubs.