Trumpet Creeper
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Scientific Name Campsis radicans
Family Name Catalpa ( Bignoniaceae )
 
5 lobed trumpet

Woody high-climbing vine with aerial rootlets without tendrils.

Flower: Orange, orange-red to red, 2 -3.5 inches long, trumpet-shaped with 5 lobes in clusters.

Leaves: Deciduous, opposite, pinnately compound with 5 -11 leaflets 1-3.5 inches long, margins coarsely toothed.
Reference:
Delena Tull, George Oxford Miller Wildflowers, Trees & Shrubs of Texas p. 135
Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller Texas Wildflowers p. 19
March - September
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