When does Stinking Passionflower bloom in Texas?

Most often in September. Across 288 dated, research-grade observations of Passiflora foetida in Texas, the flowering season runs roughly April to October.

Peak September In flower 288 Examined 375 State Texas

Flowering 288 in flower of 375 examined

36%

79%

89%

85%

70%

72%

89%

76%

54%

Proportion of examined Passiflora foetida in Texas in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	4	11	36%	15% to 65%
Apr	19	24	79%	60% to 91%
May	31	35	89%	74% to 95%
Jun	47	55	85%	74% to 92%
Jul	47	67	70%	58% to 80%
Aug	26	36	72%	56% to 84%
Sep	49	55	89%	78% to 95%
Oct	57	75	76%	65% to 84%
Nov	7	13	54%	29% to 77%
Dec	1	4	too few examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Passiflora foetida in Texas 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. 288 of 375 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 Texas found Passiflora foetida in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Texas, 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

Passiflora foetida

Stinking Passionflower

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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