I have allowed the Maypop to take over much of the spaces where I initially planted last year (a thank you weed from Gather Round Farm, a large permaculture-based garden built atop a parking lot on the west side of Cleveland). This native herbacious perennial, the true soulmate of the Bumble Bee (about three bumble bees can rub in its pollen at once), loaded with a stop-you-in-your-tracks fragrance, all of its parts can be used to make a delicious tea soothing to the nervine system, with an edible fruit - Maypop deserves a prize for most charming plant ever! Maypop is a wild one indeed, and a well named one, at that, considering the way it spreads, I have been saying it just "may pop" up anywhere (and everywhere)! Hurray for Maypop Passionflower!
The mysterious and alluring fruit of the exotic-seeming-native Maypop Passionflower.
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