Trumpet Vine
Campsis radicans
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Trumpet vine grows widely across the eastern US and somewhat in the western US and southeastern Canada. Its natural range is from Indiana, Ohio, and New Jersey, south to Florida and eastern Texas, and north to South Dakota. Trumpet vine is very hardy, drought resistant, and cold and heat resistant, so it thrives in a variety of regions and is hard to control.
Fruit: A 10-15 cm long podlike capsule containing winged seeds. They appear in the fall.
Flowers: A 3" long red trumpet-shaped flower arranged in terminal cymes. They appear throughout the summer.
Uses: It can be useful for erosion control due to its rapid colonization by suckers and layering. It's also used for decoration as the flowers are attractive.
Ethnobotany: Trumpet vine has been used to treat menstrual disorders, rheumatoid pain, and difficult urination.
Importance to wildlife: Hummingbirds, the principal pollinator of trumpet vines, are attracted to the flowers. White-tailed deer and rabbits eat the foliage.
The full trumpet vine plant growing along a tree. The red marking to the left of the tree shows how high the trumpet vine reaches. They can climb up to 35 feet.
Aerial rootlets on a trumpet vine wrapping around another tree. Though trumpet vines can be creeping or shrubby, they are mainly a climbing vine using these aerial rootlets. They do not grow tendrils.
A single leaf on a trumpet vine. Leaves are pinnately compound, with 7-15 leaflets per leaf.
A single leaflet on a trumpet vine. Leaflets are 3-7 cm long, long pointed at the apex and rounded or wedge shaped at the base, coarsely toothed, dull yellowish green and glabrous above, and paler and hairy along veins beneath.
Leaf arrangement on a trumpet vine. Leaves have an opposite arrangement.
The twig of a trumpet vine.
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