| Scientific Name: | Campsis radicans |
| Common Name: | trumpet vine, common trumpet creeper |
| Family Name: | Bignoniaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - central, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Vine - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing, Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Arbors or trellis, Attract birds, Fall interest, Fragrance, Screening, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Leathery, Glabrous, Pubescent, Even-pinnate, Elliptic, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Orange, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Woody clinging vine with aerial roots for climbing; leaves opposite, pinnately compound, 18-40cm long x 13-17cm wide; leaflets 7-13, ovate, most 6-9cm long x 3-5cm wide, margins toothed, dark green, bronze new growth; flowers reddish-orange, trumpet shaped, about 7cm long x 6cm wide; capsules 10-20cm long x ~1.5cm wide, seeds numerous, two winged. Winter ID: climbing roots; buds 1-2mm long, larger circular leaf scars; bundle scars many, tiny, arranged in a ring. | |