Description | Atomic Red Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans) is a cultivar with red to deep red flowers on a fast-growing vine. |
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Pronunciation | (KAMP-sis)(rad-i-cans) |
Plant Type | Vines, Site author's observations |
Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
Sunlight | full, mostly sunny, some shade |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | average |
Flowers | occur in clusters as cymes or panicles, red, rounded lobes |
Fruit | long bean-like fruit (capsule) |
Leaves | compound, green, pinnate compound, deciduous |
Stems | twinning stems |
Dimensions | 20 by 20 plus feet (HS) |
Maintenance | keeping to size, removal of suckering stems, will need a strong supporting structure |
Propagation | digging root suckers |
Native Site | Eastern United States |
Misc Facts | Campsis from the Greek "kampe" something bent. Referring to the curved stamens of the flowers. "radicans refers to rooting stems. |
Author's Notes | I just started growing this plant in the summer of 2014. By the end of 2015, it had one stem over 8 feet tall with another dozen or so shorted branches. Already starting to sucker from the base. When the stems get long, I wind them a turn or two onto the large trellis (8 feet tall by 12 feet wide), in the summer of 2018, only a few flowers. I am starting to wonder if this plant doe not like the site I planted it. It should be more robust by now. Now (2022), it has lived up to its name of being very aggressive. Suckers are showing up all around the plant. |
Notes & Reference | #62-Manual of Climbers and Wall Plants (J K Burras, Mark Griffiths), #150- Armitage's Vines and Climbers (Alan Armitage) |