Trumpet Creeper
Campsis radicansAlso called Trumpet Vine
Trumpet Creeper is a vine native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 6–40 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms red in summer. Good for hummingbirds.
Caution — people. Contact dermatitis for some — the common name is cow itch vine. Also suckers destructively into foundations and mortar.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsVigorous woody vine with compound leaves and large orange-red trumpet flowers all summer.
Why it works here
Nothing draws hummingbirds harder, and it will cover an ugly structure fast.
Watch out
Aggressive. It suckers into the lawn, lifts shingles, and is difficult to remove once established. Site it deliberately.
The facts
8 sources- Type
- Vine
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3+ hrs)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 6–40 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Summer · red
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on caliche, clay, dry, limestone, loam, moist, sand
- Deer
- Moderate — deer may browse it, especially new growth. Lower foliage browsed; the vine outgrows it.
- Wildlife
- Supports hummingbirds
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
1,192 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
In the Village of the Hills guide, but not on the grower stock lists we read yet. Ask a native-plant nursery.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.