Campsis radicans
Trumpet-vine, Trumpet Creeper
Bignoniaceae
Plant Specifics
Form: | Vine | |
Size: | 30-50 ft tall by 4-8 ft wide | |
Life Span: | Long-lived perennial | |
Flower Color: | Orange,red | |
Fruit Color: | Brown | |
Phenology: | Deciduous | |
Noted for: | Showy flowers |
Landscaping
Recommended Uses: | Plant this vine where it has support and where its showy flowers are visible. Climbs with aerial roots which can damage brick and stucco, so best allowed to climb trees, poles, trellises and similar structures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Considerations: | This is a fast growing vine. It also layers and suckers. These characteristics can make it weedy. It climbs by means of aerial rootlets, which can damage wood, stone, and brick. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Propagation: | Seed or transplants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Availability: | Friends, Native nurseries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Light: | Full Sun, Part Shade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moisture Tolerance: |
always floodedextremely dry |
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(Usually moist, occasional inundation ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moisture Tolerance: | Usually moist, occasional inundation ----- to ----- Somewhat long very dry periods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: | Tolerant of inundation with brackish water | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: | Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soil or other substrate: | Clay, Loam, Sand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ecology
Wildlife: |
Very attractive to hummingbirds which are its primary pollinators. | |
Insects: | Larval host for the plebeian sphinx (Paratraea plebeja) moth. | |
Native Habitats: | Dry-moist sites. Riverine forests, mesic & dry mesic hammock especially where disturbed. |
Distribution and Planting Zones
Natural Range in Florida
USDA Zones
Suitable to grow in:
8A 8B 9A 9B

USDA zones are based on minimum winter temperatures
Comments
General Comments: | While somewhat overly aggressive, it can be controlled. The author allows it to climb palm trees but pulls them off the tree to limit their size every 3-5 years. |