Also known as Yellow Jessamine, Evening Trumpetflower, woodbine and Poor Man’s Rope, Carolina Jessamine is one of the most beautiful native vines in the Southeast, and it’s one of the first flowers to bloom in late winter and early spring.

This evergreen vine climbs high and isn’t too picky about what it climbs on. Cold-season boaters on Lake Martin might confuse the clumps of yellow blossoms above the shoreline for early flowering trees, because the vine can take over a small tree’s canopy before the host leafs out.