Trumpet Creeper is a very common, ornamental but weedy, high-climbing, deciduous vine with orange-red tubular, hummingbird-attracting flowers that appear in summer.
Durham, NC 6/17/09.
Clarendon Co., SC 6/14/07.
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| Trumpet Creeper is a very common, ornamental but weedy, high-climbing, deciduous vine with orange-red tubular, hummingbird-attracting flowers that appear in summer. Durham, NC 6/17/09. |
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| Clarendon Co., SC 6/14/07. |
| Durham, NC 6/17/2009. |
| Durham, NC 6/17/2009. |
| The long pods, which ripen in the fall, are filled with numerous papery-winged seeds. Durham, NC 9/11/08. |
| Durham, NC 9/11/08. |
| Durham Co., NC 8/17/03. |
| Bark is pale tan and shreddy. Clarendon Co., SC 6/14/07. |
| The aerial rootlets, which attach the stems to the trees they grow up (such as this Loblolly Pine), are also pale tan. Orange Co., NC 3/20/10. |
| Trumpet Creeper intertwined with Eastern Poison-Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). Orange Co., NC 2/20/2011. |
More information:
Florida Nature
Floridata
Missouri Plants
Poisonous Plants of NC
Virginia Tech Dendrology
Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina
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