Scientific Name: Aristolochia sp.
Common Name: pipe vine, Dutchman's pipe
Family Name: Aristolochiaceae
Origin: Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Vine - deciduous, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 5 - 7m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Climbing
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Arbors or trellis, Attract butterflies, Screening
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Flowers paired, Yellow, Green, Purple, Brown, May-Jun
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Brown, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Leaves heart shaped, 7-25cm long x 9-30cm wide; flowers to 5cm long with an unusual Dutch pipe-shape due to calyx. Winter ID: high climbing vine with twining stems; leaf scar U-shaped; buds small, clustered, woolly.