| Scientific Name: | Lophospermum erubescens |
| Common Name: | creeping gloxinia |
| Family Name: | Plantaginaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Deltoid, Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Purple, Pink, Red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves pubescent with petioles up to 6.5cm long that wrap around structures to climb, blades triangular to heart-shaped, most 5-10(-15)cm long by about 6cm wide, margins toothed (each one may have a few smaller sharply pointed teeth); flowers with five petals, forming a tube about 5-6cm long; fruit a round capsule. | |