Chinese trumpet creeper
Campsis grandiflora
USDA zones6 to 9
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles dry to moist soil
Size20 to 30 feet tall6 to 9 feet wide
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Climbing
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Bloom color
- Orange-red with yellow throat
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora) is a vine for privacy screens, accents, cottage gardens, and pollinator gardens. It is hardy to USDA zone 6, or down to -10°F (-23°C). This plant likes full or part sun and dry to moist soil of most types. Orange-red flowers with yellow throats attract hummingbirds and bees, so give the vine a warm spot with room to ramble. Deer usually look elsewhere for a meal. It clings by aerial roots and is not aggressive like the American trumpet creeper.
Pairs well with Cross vine, Anise hyssop, Knock Out rose, and Sundrops.
Native range
China.