Climbing Flowers

Flowering plants that climb by twining or by tendrils rather than standing on their own stems, including jasmine, passionflower and morning glory, whose long stems and showy blooms have given them places in perfumery, ritual and the symbolism of devotion. A plant belongs here when its cited plant database page describes it as a climber. It excludes the upright annual and perennial flowers and the bulb flowers. Whether the plant is evergreen, deciduous or annual is a second distinction that this group leaves aside, because the shared habit of climbing is what the reader sees in the garden and in cultivation.