Jacquemontia pringlei – Pringle's Clustervine

Jacquemontia pringlei - Pringle's Clustervine (lavender flower)

Jacquemontia pringlei - Pringle's Clustervine (white flower)

Jacquemontia pringlei - Pringle's Clustervine (flower with magenta center)

Jacquemontia pringlei - Pringle's Clustervine (flower showing sepals)

Jacquemontia pringlei - Pringle's Clustervine

Jacquemontia pringlei - Pringle's Clustervine

Plant Name

Scientific Name: Jacquemontia pringlei

Common Name: Pringle's Clustervine

Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial

Growth Habit: Shrub, Vine

Arizona Native Status: Native

Habitat: Desert. Pringle's Clustervine grows on rocky slopes and in the mountain foothills. It is especially common in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains.

Flower Color: Pale lavender, White

Flowering Season: Spring (late), Summer, Fall (early). It mainly blooms after the summer monsoon rains.

Height: Under 3 feet (91 cm) tall as a shrub, but climbing to 5 feet (1.5 m) tall as a vine

Description: The flowers are in loose clusters of 1 or more. The individual flowers have a funnel-shaped, morning glory-like corolla and 5 green, leafy, egg-shaped sepals. Some of the flowers have a magenta throat. The leaves are up to 2 inches (5 cm) wide, green, stellate-hairy, alternate, and oval to heart-shaped. The stems are usually fuzzy (rarely hairless) and woody at the base. The plants are either low, compact, mounding shrubs or rambling vines climbing through other plants.

The other Jacquemontia species found here, Midnightblue Clustervine (Jacquemontia agrestis), has blue flowers with lanceolate sepals.

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae – Morning-glory family
Genus: Jacquemontia Choisy – clustervine
Species: Jacquemontia pringlei A. Gray – Pringle's clustervine

More About This Plant

Arizona County Distribution Map