Image courtesy UGA Herbarium

In The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, L.H. Bailey describes the genus campsis as:

"Ornamental vines cultivated for their striking scarlet or orange flowers. Deciduous woody plants, climbing by aerial rootlets, with opposite, odd-pinnate leaves, large orange or scarlet flowers in terminal clusters or pannicles, followed by large elongated capsules: calyx tubular-campanulate, leathery, unequally 5-toothed; corolla funnelform-campanulate, enlarged above the calyx, 5-lobed, with spreading lobes, slightly 2-lipped; stamens 4, 2 longer and 2 shorter with diverging anthers; ovary 2-loculed, surrounded at the base by a large disk: fruit an elongated capsule, loculicidally dehiscent, with the 2 valves separating from the sceptum to which the seeds are attached; seeds numerous, compressed, with 2 large translucent wings." ( Bailey 1960)

C. radicans--" Scadent shrub to 10m; aerial roots abundant. Pinnae to 6cm, 9-11, glabrous but midrib pubescent beneath. Flowers in clusters of 4-12; calyx campanulate, lobes triangular, short; corolla to 7cm, tubular-funnelform, pale orange, yellow inside, limb scarlet to 4cm diameter. Summer. SE US. " ( Burras & Griffiths 1994)

C. grandiflora--" Scadent shrub, to 6m; aerial roots few or absent. Pinnae 4-7cm, 7-9, wholly glabrous. Inflorescence a loose pannicle; calyx deeply divided, lobes lanceolate, to 2cm; corolla tube funnelform, limb to 6cm diameter, orange outside, rich yellow inside. Summer-autumn. Japan, China." ( Burras & Griffiths 1994)

C. x tagliabuana--" Intermediate between the parents [ C. grandiflora x C. radicans]. Shrubby. Leaves 20-35cm, rachis pilose; pinnae to 8x4.5cm, 7-11, light pubescent above and on veins beneath, serrate. Pannicles loose; corolla tubular-campanulate, tube to 6.5cm , base narrow, widening to 3 cm across at throat, orange outside, scarlet inside, limb to 6.5 cm diameter, lobes to 3.8 x 2.4 cm." (Burras and Griffiths 1994)

Bailey, L.H. 1960. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. Vol. 1. The Macmillan Company, New York.

Burras, J.K. & Mark Griffiths. 1994. Manual of Climbers and Wall Plants. Timber Press. Portland, Oregon. (ISBN 0-88192-299-4)

Consolino, Francesca & Enrico Banfi. 1994. The Simon & Schuster Guide to Climbing Plants. Simon & Schuster Inc. New York, NY. (ISBN 0-671-51050-9)

Crandall, Chuck & Barbara Crandall. 1995. Flowering, Fruiting and Foliage Vines. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. (ISBN 0-8069-0726-6)

Dirr, Michael A. 1990. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. 4^th Edition. Stipes Publishing Co. (ISBN 0-87563-344-7)

Duncan, Wilbur H. 1975. Woody Vines of the Southeastern United States. University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA.

Godfrey, Robert K. & Jean W. Wooten. 1981. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States. University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA. (ISBN 0-8203-0532-4)

Jones, S.B. & N.C.Coile. 1988. Distribution of the Vascular Flora of Georgia. Department of Botany., University of Georgia. Athens, GA.

Radford, A.E., H.E. Ahles & C.R. Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC. (ISBN 0-8078-1087-8)

Smith, James Payne Jr. 1974. Introduction to the Families of Vascular Plants. Mad River Press. Eureka, CA.

Vines, Robert A. 1960. Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southwest. University of Texas Press. Austin, TX.

Wharton, Mary E. & Roger W. Barbour. 1973. Trees and Shrubs of Kentucky. The University Press of Kentucky. (ISBN 0-8131-1294-x)

Wyman, Donald. 1971. Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

I would like to thank the following people for their help:

Mike Moore and the UGA Herbarium for permission to use their slides.

Beth Shapiro for scanning my images

For any further questions sent e-mail to: oorza@arches.uga.edu