When does Amur peppervine bloom in Virginia?

Most often in July. Across 121 dated, research-grade observations of Ampelopsis glandulosa in Virginia, the flowering season runs roughly July to August.

Peak July In flower 121 Examined 604 State Virginia

Flowering 121 in flower of 604 examined

Proportion of examined Ampelopsis glandulosa in Virginia in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 0 0 too few examined
Apr 1 56 2% 0% to 9%
May 1 44 2% 0% to 12%
Jun 29 82 35% 26% to 46%
Jul 39 82 48% 37% to 58%
Aug 35 91 38% 29% to 49%
Sep 16 118 14% 9% to 21%
Oct 0 108 0% 0% to 3%
Nov 0 21 0% 0% to 15%
Dec 0 2 too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Ampelopsis glandulosa in Virginia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 121 of 604 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Virginia found Ampelopsis glandulosa in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Virginia, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Virginia. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
  2. World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.