Scientific Name:	Lophospermum erubescens
Pronunciation:	loe-foe-sper-mum er-yoo-BESS-kens
Common Name:	creeping gloxinia
Family Name:	Plantaginaceae
Plant Type:	Annual, Vine or climber
Key ID Features:	Leaves pubescent with petioles up to 6.5 cm long that wrap around structures to climb, blades triangular to heart-shaped, most 5 - 10 (-15) cm long by about 6 cm wide, margins toothed (each one may have a few smaller sharply pointed teeth); flowers with five petals, forming a tube about 5 - 6 cm long; fruit a round capsule.
Course(s):	not used (off campus)

Habit: Upright Form: Climbing Texture: Medium - coarse Mature Size: Height: 2 - 3m Spread: 0.3 - 0.6m Growth Rate: Fast Origin: Mexico Hardiness Rating: Zone 11: (above 4 C) Exposure: Full sun Soil/ Growing Medium: Well-drained Water Use: Moderate Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Summer interest Additional Info: Google

Leaf Morphology: Form: Simple Arrangement: Alternate Texture/ Venation: Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Soft flexible Surfaces: Pubescent Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Deltoid, Ovate Apices: Acute Bases: Cordate Margins: Dentate

Inflorescence Type: Floriferous, Flowers solitary Flower Morphology: Flowers perfect Number of Petals: 5 Corolla Shape: Tubular Colour (petals): Showy, Pink, Red, White, Purple Flower Scent: None Flower Time at Peak: May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep Additional Info: 'Great Cascade Wine Red' has wine red flowers

Fruit Type: Capsule Fruit Colour: Green, Brown Fruiting Time: Aug, Sep, Oct Additional Info: round

Bark or Stem Colour:     Organ Modifications: Fibrous-like roots, Tendrils, Twining petioles and eventually a woody caudex forms (a swollen, bulb-like structure at the base of the stem)

Propagation:	Seed, Softwood cuttings

Location(s): (NCA) Not Currently Available : not used Location Map

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