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The vigor of the trumpet vine should not be underestimated. In warm weather, it puts out huge numbers of tendrils that grab onto every available surface, and eventually expand into heavy woody stems several centimeters in diameter. It grows well on arbors, fences, telephone poles, and trees, although it may dismember them in the process. Ruthless pruning is recommended. Outside of its native range this species has the potential to be highly invasive, even as far north as [[New England]].The trumpet vine thrives in many places in southern Canada as well.
The vigor of the trumpet vine should not be underestimated. In warm weather, it puts out huge numbers of tendrils that grab onto every available surface, and eventually expand into heavy woody stems several centimeters in diameter. It grows well on arbors, fences, telephone poles, and trees, although it may dismember them in the process. Ruthless pruning is recommended. Outside of its native range this species has the potential to be highly invasive, even as far north as [[New England]].The trumpet vine thrives in many places in southern Canada as well.
Alternate scientific names have included ''Bignonia radicans'' and ''Tecoma radicans''.
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Campsis radicans. Seem. (Tecoma radicans, Juss. Bignonia radicans, Linn.). Trumpet-creeper. Trumpet-vine.trumpet- honeysuckle. Figs. 773, 774. High-climbing shrub, clinging with rootlets: lvs. odd-pinnate; lfts. 9-11, oval to ovate- oblong, acuminate, serrate, dark green above, pale and pubescent beneath, at least along the midrib, l½-2½ in. long: fls. in terminal racemes; corolla tubular-funnelform, about 3 in. long, with 5 spreading lobes, usually orange with scarlet limb, tube almost thrice as long as the short-toothed calyx: fr. cylindric-oblong, keeled along the sutures, stalked and with a beak at the apex, 3-5 in. long. July- Sept. Pa. and Ill. to Fla. and Texas. B.M. 485. Gn. 22, p. 339. F. 1873, p. 220. A. F. 12:34. Mn. 2:9. Var. atropurpurea, Voss (var. grandiflora atropurpurea, Hort.). With large, deep scarlet fls. Var. speciosa, Voss. Scarcely climbing, usually forming a bush with long and slender branches: lfts. small, oval, abruptly narrowed into a slender point often ¾in. long: fls. orange-red, with rather straight tube; limb about 1¼ in. across. Var. praecox, Schneid. Large scarlet fls. in June. Var. aurea, Hort. Fls. yellow.
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==External links==
==External links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_vine
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_vine
*[http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/frame/cara2.htm ''Campsis radicans'' images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu]
*[http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/frame/cara2.htm ''Campsis radicans'' images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu]