Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Campsis radicans
Campsis radicans (L.) Seem. ex Bureau
Trumpet Creeper, Trumpet Vine, Common Trumpet Creeper, Cow Vine, Foxglove Vine, Hellvine, Devil's Shoestring
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-Creeper Family)
USDA Symbol: CARA2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Campsis radicans
Trumpet-Creeper, Cow-Itch Vine
Bignoniaceae
Location: On brick wall facing Oakwell Farms Pky at 2 Plum Lane--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun; additional moisture from lawn sprinkler. Alkaline, alluvial soil. Common, but widely scattered in the community.
Description: Deciduous shrub, 3 m high. Clinging with aerial rootlets to almost any surface. Leaves opposite, odd pinnate. 9-11 leaflets, lance-eliptic, coarsely serrate, w/short petiolule. Infloresences in terminal panicles. Corolla thick-tissued, tubular-funnelform. Orange outer w/deep orange limb.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 15, 1987
Specimen number: 225
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0457
Accession Date: Jul 27, 1993
Accession Number: 36
Annotations: SCXXB