• Height/Habitat: "Quick growth to 50', although 35' is average. Clinging climber (aerial rootlets). While rootlets anchor efficiently to flat surfaces, this vine is rampant and heavy and occasionally needs to have its stems lashed to a strong support (wire, trellis) to prevent plant from collapsing under its own weight." (Crandall & Crandall 1995)
• Rate: Fast (Dirr 1990)
• Hardiness: Zone 4 to 9
• Leaves: " Opposite, pinnately compound, 6 to 15" long, 7,9 to 11 leaflets, short stalked, elliptic to ovate-oblong, each leaflet 3/4 to 4" long, 1/4 to 2' wide, coarsely and angularly toothed, with a long acuminate apex, lustrous dark green above, glabrous, pubescent beneath especially on veins." (Dirr 1990)
• Leaf Color: " Lustrous dark green changing to yellow green in fall and not effective; late leafing." (Dirr 1990)
• Buds: " Small, mostly solitary, sessile, triangular, compressed, with 2 or 3 pairs of exposed scales." (Dirr 1990)
• Stem: " Light brown, glabrous, aerial rootlets develop between nodes; pith-solid, pale brown; leaf scar crater-like depression with one bundle trace, bud sits on top of leaf scar, leaf scars connected by hairy ridge." (Dirr1990)
• Texture: " Medium in summer, coarse in winter." (Dirr 1990)
• Flowers: " 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..." (Bailey 1960) One style, 2-lipped stigma, ovary superior. (Godfrey & Wooten 1981)
• Fruit: "A 3 to 5 " long, 3/4" wide capsule; each loaded with numerous flattened seeds with 2 large transparent wings." (Dirr 1990)
• Cultivation: "Hardy plant which will withstand intense cold if grown against a well-exposed wall and mulched at the base in winter. Cool, fertile, well drained, fairly compact soil, in sunny, sheltered position. Hard prune at the end of winter. Needs a support during first growth phase."(Consolino & Banfi 1994)
• Propagation: "By semiripe or herbaceous cuttings, or by seed in spring; by layering in fall." (Consolino & Benfi 1994)
• Uses: Covering small surfaces and pillars. (Consolino & Banfi 1994)
• Diseases and Insects: " Blight, leaf spots, powdery mildew, plant hoppers, scale and whitefly occur but are not serious enough to warrant controls." (Dirr 1990)
• Native Habitat: N.J. to Iowa, generally southward to Florida and Texas (Godfrey & Wooten 1981)
• Geography:

Campsis radicans
AREA	STATUS	REFERENCES
N.America: Continental United States	Yes	Godfrey & Wooten. 1981
Eastern North America: United States east of Mississippi;	Yes	Godfrey & Wooten. 1981
Southeastern United States: AL AR DE DC FL GA KY MD NC SC TN VA WV	Yes	Radford, Ahles & Bell. 1968 Wharton & Barbour. 1973
Southeastern Appalacian States: AL GA KY MD NC SC TN VA WV	Yes	Radford, Ahles & Bell. 1968 Wharton & Barbour. 1973
Coastal Plain	Widespread	Radford, Ahles & Bell. 1968
Piedmont	Widespread	Radford, Ahles & Bell. 1968
Blue Ridge Mountains	Marginal	Radford, Ahles & Bell. 1968
Great Smoky Mountains	Yes	Radford, Ahles & Bell. 1968
Ridge and Valley	?	----
Cumberland Plateau	Yes	Wharton & Barbour. 1973
Central Arch	?	----
Georgia	Yes	Duncan. 1975
Clarke County, Georgia	Yes	UGA Herbarium Specimens
Sams Farm	Common	Olivia Orza, Pers. Obs.
Old Field	Yes	Olivia Orza, Pers. Obs.
Wetland	?	----
Woods	?	----
1-Hectare Plot	?	----

• How to Encounter: Campsis radicans is found in a wide variety of habitats, lowland and upland woodlands of different mixtures, floodplain forests, fencerows, thickets, old fields. N.J. to Iowa, generally southward to Florida,and Texas. (Godfrey & Wooten 1981) It is an aggressive weed and can be found growing along roads, on trees, and in cultivated fields. ( Burras & Griffiths 1994)Campsis radicans is the hardiest of the the three Campsis species. (Bailey 1960)