When does purple passionflower bloom in Louisiana?

Most often in July. Across 263 dated, research-grade observations of Passiflora incarnata in Louisiana, the flowering season runs roughly June to August.

Peak July In flower 263 Examined 416 State Louisiana

Flowering 263 in flower of 416 examined

29%

69%

89%

91%

78%

73%

14%

Proportion of examined Passiflora incarnata in Louisiana in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Feb	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Mar	0	18	0%	0% to 18%
Apr	21	72	29%	20% to 41%
May	48	70	69%	57% to 78%
Jun	55	62	89%	78% to 94%
Jul	70	77	91%	82% to 96%
Aug	38	49	78%	64% to 87%
Sep	29	40	73%	57% to 84%
Oct	1	11	9%	2% to 38%
Nov	1	7	14%	3% to 51%
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Passiflora incarnata in Louisiana 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. 263 of 416 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 Louisiana found Passiflora incarnata in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Louisiana, 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 incarnata

purple passionflower

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Louisiana. 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.