Maypop or Purple Passionflower
Passiflora incarnata
                    
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left Maypop or Purple Passionflower Photograph right
 
2022 Photograph, Maypop, Purple Passionflower, True Passionflower, Wild Apricot, or Wild Passion Vine with Bumblebee (Passiflora incarnata, Passiflora Family, Passifloraceae), Fairfax, Virginia, © 2022.
Bumblebees are highly attracted to Maypop flowers. The top of their thorax is usually coated with pollen which comes from the stamens that the bees rub against while getting nectar.
Jian Zhe Li

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