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: Shrub - deciduous, Vine - deciduous, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 7 - 10m x 5 - 7m (height x width)
Habit: Irregular, Pendulous, Spreading
Form: Climbing, Irregular
Texture: Medium
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: buds 1-2mm long, larger circular leaf scars; bundle scars many, tiny, arranged in a ring.