wooly passiflora and miscellaneous flowers

At Arlington spring roundup I received a couple of vine plants marked "wooly passiflora." Could not find anything with this name in PlantFiles. They spread on my fence and many blooms. Lots of bees but never saw any butterfly activity on them. Of course, we did not have nearly as many BF's as previous years. Now that the foliage has frozen, will the vine come back from the root in the spring? Also, have lots of its seed pods with very small papery seeds in them. Any advice on planting the seed would be appreciated. I would like to have this vine everywhere.

Re: Gaillardia Pulchella -- volunteers coming up everywhere -- except some places that I would like for it to be. LOL. Last spring was the first time I've planted it and it really thrived most of the summer. Is it normal for volunteers to be growing 3 to 4 inches high this time of year or is it due to unseasonal temp? Can it be transplanted and, if so, when?

Re: Gomphrena - Have had flocks of Junkos and a few House Finches spending lots of time eating the seed heads. Definitely want more of these plants this year.

Re: Datura - I have lots of seed to share if anyone wants any. Can I expect volunteers to come up from the piles of seed that scattered in my flower garden?

TIA and Happy Gardening,
Glenna

Hello Glenna,
The Woolly passionflower, Passiflora foetida probably came from me, yes it is hardy and comes back from the roots. I have never propagated it from seed just cuttings ans suckers, here is a link;
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PAFO2
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1194/

The Gaillardia can be transplanted with no problem.

Good to hear from you.
Josephine.

Glenna, I have started these from seed easily. It sure is a fun native vine!

Tonya

Tonya, this may seen like a dumb question but as far as I know my foetida vine doesn't produce seed, my theory is because of no cross pollination.
Now my question, since i have never seen seed on mine, is the seed inside the little red balloon like fruit? or is it in the ovary behind the red fruit?
Please answer me, inquiring minds need to know.
Josephine.

I would also like to know if what I think are the seeds truly are seeds. Here's the best photo I could get of a couple of the "red" balloons that have now turned yellow as they dried with a couple of seed by themselves in front. Hope this shows up.

Glenna

PlantFiles link given previously by Josephine has a photo posted by DG Member "Calalily" of what appears to be seed and they are dark brown or black, similar in appearance to coreopsis seed. What I have definitely are not dark in color. Maybe the pods I picked weren't mature enough.

Bring some seeds to the round-up when you figure out which are the seeds!!! Jo, does the regular blue passiflora come back from the root too? Mine is still green and growing so I could take cuttings if it's not coming back. TIA Marty

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Yes it does come back, if we are talking about tis one; http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PAIN6
Most of them are root hardy, unless they are the very tropical ones from south America.

I too saved some of the seeds inside of the balls that formed after the bloom. Some are darker and some lighter. I think that color is due to the age of them.

The seeds are in the red fruit. Mine were all light so I am thinking they might not be viable. I did plant them anyway.
C

Well, that is what I thought, but then I could have been missing something. Let us know if those seeds work out, or not.

I have this, too. I just cut it way back almost to the ground every year, and it comes back beautifully. A couple have come up volunteer.

Sorry I have been away so long. Glenna, your pic looks like the seeds I successfully germinated. I didn't know some seeds from this plant were darker, so just planted what I had last year and they came up just fine.

Josephine, did you try planting some of the seeds that I sent you in the Tx Native swap? I wonder if they need to be planted fresh. I did find them inside the fruit. They were very sticky when first opened so let them dry out before packing. From what I have heard, these grow a lot in the wild in south TX.

If I remember right, I wintersowed mine last year, although I do have volunteers come up around the mother plant and even in beds several feet away.

Tonya

Yes, I planted your seeds but no luck, but I just didn't think those whitish tiny seed from my vine were fertile, I will give them a try.
Josephine.