Does anyone know what kind of flower this is. I saw it walking around Deep Fork NWR today.

It's probably a passion fruit flower.

Keith

What Keith said.

purple passionflower or maypop.

Not a botanist but I grow perrenial wildflowers grasses and shrubs for a living. Definitely passiflora, passionflower. Native to Mexico and central America but spread all over. Don't see them up here.

Passiflora incarnata - purple passion flower, more commonly called a maypop in the south. This is a species native to the southeast and generally can be found up to growing Zone 5 or so. Deer like to browse it and fritterly butterflies use it as a host plant. Lots of plants in this genus, mosyly tropical, this is the species found the furthest north. The more tropical species are where the passion fruit you see for sale at the grocery store come from. The species we have here just makes a mostly hollow, egg shaped, green fruit - where it gets the common name maypop.

I need to get out more.

I’m thinking this is the same plant we call may apple . My territory is a hundred mile from north to south and I don’t find it in the north 1/3 of the territory. Doesn’t mean it’s not there but I don’t find it anywhere but the southern 2/3 of the territory.

Remarkable! How fast could it walk?

May Apples are a completely different plant also known as American Mandrake.

Man I would really like to have seen it walking... I wonder where it was going?

I thought I would through that out there since I haven't seen PCR2 on here.

Garry-

"Feed me Seymour, I'm hungry" popped into my head.

Moosetrot