Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Bignoniaceae - Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans)

Trumpet Creeper

(Campsis radicans)

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Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Bignonia capreolata

Trumpet Creeper shares a resemblance of Cross Vine. The leaves of Cross Vine consist of 2 pairs of ovate leaflets and are not compound. The flowering season of Cross Vine is generally earlier (May to June).

Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans)

Identification: A vine. Flowers large, red-orange, trumpet-shaped with 5 spreading petals at the apex of the tube. Stem woody, a vine, either creeping on the ground or hanging from trees and shrubs. Leaves compound with 7 to 11 leaflets. Leaflets with toothed margins.

Distribution: Found naturally from Illinois in the east to New Jersey in the west, southward to Florida and Texas. Escaped from cultivation further north and west.

Habitat: Trumpet Creeper is found in bottomland forest and along the margins of woods and thickets in general.

Flowering period: July to September.

Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans)

Similar Species:

Cross Vine (Bignonia capreolata)

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