(Bignonia family)

Woody plants with large, showy flowers and usually opposite, simple or compound leaves. Fruit a dry capsule with large, flat-winged seed. Three genera, 5 + species. Common genera: Campsis, Bignonia, Catalpa.

Campsis radicans

Trumpetcreeper

Perennial woody vine. Spreads by seed and roots. Stems smooth, 20 to 40 feet long. Leaves opposite,6tbl$inches long, compound, with 7 to 11 leaflets. Flowers fu1}nel- or trumpet-shaped, large, color orange to scarlet, in short- stemmed clusters. Seed pod four to six inches long, round but flattened on two sides, slightly curved. Found in fence rows and fields.