| 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, Magenta, Red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ovate-deltoid, 5-10cm long x 3-8cm wide, base cordate, margin dentate, pubescent, petioles 4-6.5cm long that wrap around structures to climb, flowers funnel-form, bilaterally symmetrical, 5-7cm long x 3-4cm wide, 5 petals, pink-magenta; fruit a round capsule. | |