Scattered across an acre like this, growing on blackberry bushes, maypop is one of the most recognizable flowers.
Aka Passionflower, Passiflora incarnata is the host plant of the Gulf fritillary butterfly, Dione vanillae. The adult butterflies plant eggs on maypops, and the caterpillars eat the leaves. http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/?p=9756
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Apparently box turtles don’t like blackberries, even when Gretchen offers them. And Yellow Dog doesn’t notice turtles.
![[Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-11--turtle-dog/20200611_112541.jpg)
Gretchen offers blackberry to turtle
Red and black:
Red and black
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2012-07-26.
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Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Blackberry:
Stinging nettle:
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman,Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 April 2010.
![[Maypops]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--maypops/20250530_193817.jpg)
![[Climbing on blackberry bushes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--maypops/20250530_193826.jpg)
