Trumpet Creeper

Growth habit

Vine, Climber

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Groundcover Collection

Source of plant

Fairweather Gardens

Description

'Madame Galen' is a mid-19th century hybrid between Campsis radicans and Campsis grandiflora. It produces 3" long trumpet-shaped, cantaloupe-orange to salmon-red flowers which appear in loose clusters throughout the summer. It is a woody, clinging vine which attaches itself to structures and climbs by aerial rootlets. It rapidly grows 15-25' high and produces compound, odd-pinnate leaves (to 15" long) which are shiny green above and glabrous below. Each leaf has 7-11 ovate leaflets. Flowers are very attractive to hummingbirds. Flowers are followed by long, bean-like seed pods which split open when ripe releasing numerous 2-winged seeds for dispersal by the wind.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4