Trumpet Vine

Description:

Native trumpet vine is a mixed bag of blessing and problems! Cultivated for its brilliant orange to red flowers, trumpet vine can (and often does!) escape its garden bounds. Like many vining climbers, it does so by means of aerial rootlets which can damage wood, stone, and brick. Dense colonization can become a nuisance, particularly in the southeast, where its invasive and twining qualities have earned it the names "Hellvine" and "Devils Shoestring". It is useful for erosion control, however, and its flowers attract hummingbirds and many other beneficial pollinators.

Habitat:

Native Distribution: Eastern North America from Ontario and NY down to FL and eastern TX, northwest to the Dakotas Native Habitat: In trees of moist woods or along fence rows in old fields

Notes:

Spotted growing along the fenceline of a local mining complex.