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Campsis radicans (trumpet vine). Anne Holmes, artist<\/p><\/div>\n
Trumpet vine is a dense, vigorous, fast-growing, deciduous woody vine that grows to 40 feet in height. It grows well on arbors, fences, telephone poles and trees. It is easily grown in a wide variety of soils in full sun to part shade. The waxy, trumpet-shaped flowers are 3-1\/2 inches long and are orange to reddish-orange in color. The flowers are followed by large seed pods that dry and eventually split apart and release hundreds of brown paper-like seeds. The nectar of the trumpet-shaped flowers are very attractive to Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, bumblebees and honeybees.<\/p>\n
The plant also provides good cover and a nesting habitat for many species of songbirds. The foliage is toxic to mammalian herbivores and thus they do not bother the plants.<\/p>\n