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Campsis radicans
Campsis radicans
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Seemann
- Offspring
- Campsis radicans f. flava (C. radicans 'Yellow Trumpet', C. radicans var. aurea, C. radicans var. flava, Tecoma radicans var. lutea), Campsis radicans 'Crimson Trumpet', Campsis radicans 'Praecox' (C. radicans 'Sanguinea Praecox', C. radicans var. praecox), Campsis radicans var. atropurpurea, Campsis radicans var. floribunda, Campsis radicans var. minor, Campsis radicans var. speciosa (C. radicans 'Speciosa')
Common Names
- Corneta Lila (Ecuador)
- Common Trumpet Creeper
- Cow-itch
- Trumpet Honeysuckle
- Trumpet Vine
- Virginia Jasmine
- Chinese Trumpet Vine
- Shwe-zezawa (Myanmar)
Geographical Habitats
- Ontario - Canada
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorada
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Massachussetts
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin - U.S.A.
Natural Habitats
- Woodland
- streamside
- swamps
- thickets
Flowering Times
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct Summer to Autumn
Fruiting Times
Deciduous glabrous woody climber to 12m with radicant branches, aerial roots. Imparipinnate leaves with 7-11 leaflets, glabrate serrated pointed leaflets to 60mm long. Few-flowered terminal racemes or corymbs of orange or red flowers, calyx to 18mm long, red & orange or yellow within corolla to 90mm long, limb 50mm long. Spindle-shaped brown capsule to 125mm long.
Further References
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- van der Spuy
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- Mobot
- RHS A-Z
- NYBG
- Bodkin
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- USNH
- USDA
- Botanicus
- JAA
- FOSEUS
- Kew
- Exotica
- Mendoza