Garden tips: Because of its fast growth rate and potential size, may be difficult to control in small setting. Growth habit: Crossvine is long-lived (up to 50 years), fast-growing and can climb long and far if allowed. I always look forward to our crossvines ( Bignonia capreolata) flowering every spring. Its claim to fame comes in springtime with its generous crop of trumpet-shaped flowers in orange and yellow hues. Its flowers are produced in early April and may appear high up in the trees where the vines receive more sunlight. Crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata ), sometimes called Bignonia crossvine, is a perennial vine that is happiest scaling walls up to 50 feet (15 m.) thanks to its claw-tipped tendrils that grip as it climbs. Cross-vine may be propagated by root cutting or seed. In severe winters, the vine may die to the ground, but the roots are usually hardy enough to survive and will sprout new growth the following spring.
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They turn from deep green in summer to shades of bronze and purple in fall where the weather is colder. This native crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata) climbed rapidly up a sweet gum tree. Cross-vine will grow well in shade to full sun, with better flower production the more sunlight it receives. The leaves are oblong, glossy and waxy in appearance. In mid-spring the crossvine becomes covered with clusters of yellow to red trumpet shaped 2' flowers. To see where natural populations of crossvine have been vouchered, visit .Įxposure: Full sun to full shade (Full sun will yield more flowers) Bignonia capreolata is a climbing, woody vine that can spread to over 50'. Native range: Panhandle, north and central peninsula The fruit is a long brown bean-like capsule that splits when dry to expose its winged seeds. Cross vine occurs frequently in floodplain forests and wet hammocks of the northern counties of Florida, south to the central peninsula. Extremely drought-tolerant, crossvine needs very little water once established. The stem is robust, growing to about 1” in diameter. Bignonia capreolata Native crossvine is a vigorous woody vine with large, trumpet-shaped flowers that are irresistible to hummingbirds and butterflies. Each leaf bears two lanceolate leaflets and a tendril. Its compound leaves are dark green, petiloate and oppositely arranged. Both corollas and calyces are five- lobed. They are borne in showy clusters that emerge from the leaf axil. The flowers are long (2–3”), tubular and reddish-orange with yellowish throats. It is mainly pollinated by hummingbirds but attracts some butterflies, as well. It occurs naturally in mesic to dry hammocks, floodplain forests and dry hardwood forests. It typically blooms in spring, when it puts on a spectacular display, but they can appear as early as February and as late as June. View post as a PDF.Ĭrossvine is a perennial evergreen vine, so named because a cross-section of its stem reveals a cross-shaped pattern. Click on terms for botanical definitions. Pictured above: Crossvine ( Bignonia capreolata) by Eleanor Dietrich.
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