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NC Native Plant Society:
Plant Details

Campsis radicans [= Bignonia radicans]

Trumpet Creeper; Trumpet Vine, Cow Itch

Scientific Name:

Campsis radicans [= Bignonia radicans]

Genus:

Campsis

Species Epithet:

radicans

Common Name:

Trumpet Creeper; Trumpet Vine, Cow Itch

Plant Type

Woody Vine

Life Cycle

Perennial

Plant Family

Bignoniaceae (Bignonia Family)

Native/Alien:

NC Native

Bloom Color(s):

Orange

Light:

Sun - 6 or more hours of sun per day, Part Shade - 2 to 6 hours of sun per day

Soil Moisture:

Moist

Bloom Time:

July, August, September, October

Growing Area:

Mountains, Piedmont, Sandhills, Coastal Plain

Habitat Description:

Bottomland forests, swamp forests, fencerows, oldfields, forests, thickets, disturbed areas.

Leaf Arrangement:

Opposite

Leaf Retention:

Deciduous

Leaf Type:

Leaves veined, not needle-like or scale-like

Leaf Form:

Compound

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Wildlife Value:

Has some wildlife value

Landscape Value:

Recommended and Available

State Rank:

S5: Secure (*Key)

Global Rank:

G5 - Secure (*Key)

Notes:

In the pre-Columbian
landscape this plant was primarily limited to swamps and bottomlands; it has done well as a weedy colonizer of abandoned
farmland, fencerows, and thickets (where particularly conspicuous on fenceposts and old tobacco barns). In swamps of the
Coastal Plain it is a common liana, often with its foliage in the canopy 30-40 m above the ground, and with stems to 15 cm in
diameter. Even when the foliage cannot be seen, Campsis is immediately recognizable by its shreddy tannish bark (unlike any of
our other high-climbing vines).

Buds

Note the compound leaves

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Blooms

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Bloom Close Up

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Leslie John Sox

Buds Close up

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Leslie John Sox

Developing fruit (capsule) in August

Orange County, NC

The Scientific Name is Campsis radicans [= Bignonia radicans]. You will likely hear them called Trumpet Creeper; Trumpet Vine, Cow Itch. This picture shows the Developing fruit (capsule) in August of Campsis radicans [= Bignonia radicans]

Bettina Darveaux

Climbing stem with adventitious aerial roots. For comparison, Japanese Honeysuckle has no aerial roots, and Poison Ivy has numerous making the stem look completely furry.

Orange County, NC

The Scientific Name is Campsis radicans [= Bignonia radicans]. You will likely hear them called Trumpet Creeper; Trumpet Vine, Cow Itch. This picture shows the Climbing stem with adventitious aerial roots.  For comparison, Japanese Honeysuckle has no aerial roots, and Poison Ivy has numerous making the stem look completely furry. of Campsis radicans [= Bignonia radicans]

Bettina Darveaux

Links:

USDA PLANTS Database Record



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