Campsis radicans

Trumpet creeper

Family: Bignoniaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Trumpet creeper is a naturalized shrub escaping throughout the California Floristic Province, commonly found along roadsides, fencerows, and in abandoned fields and floodplain forests at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces fragrant, trumpet-shaped red-orange flowers 5 to 8 centimeters long in flat-topped clusters. Growing up to 10 meters tall with climbing and spreading habit, it develops woody stems that can attach and sprawl across surfaces. Its compound leaves have elliptic or ovate blades 4 to 7 centimeters long, divided into multiple leaflets. The plant produces elongated oblanceolate seed pods 10 to 20 centimeters in length, containing linear seeds 20 to 30 millimeters long.

Habitat: Roadsides, fencerows, abandoned fields, floodplain forests

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: Cult, escaping throughout CA-FP

California counties: Sacramento, Glenn, Butte, Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, Sonoma, San Luis Obispo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.