Trumpet vine or trumpet creeper

Description: This woody vine may climb to 15 meters high. It has pealike fruit capsules. The leaves are pinnately compound, 7 to 11 toothed leaves per leaf stock. The trumpet-shaped flowers are orange to scarlet in color.

Habitat and Distribution: This vine is found in wet woods and thickets throughout eastern and central North America.

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- Castor bean, castor-oil plant, palma Christi   - Chinaberry   - Cowhage, cowage, cowitch   - Death camas, death lily   - Lantana   - Manchineel   - Oleander   - Pangi   - Physic nut   - Poison hemlock, fool's parsley   - Poison ivy and poison oak   - Poison sumac   - Rosary pea or crab's eyes   - Strychnine tree   - Trumpet vine or trumpet creeper   - Water hemlock or spotted cowbane