General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6b -20.6 °C (-5 °F) to -17.8 °C (0 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 20 to 50 feet
Plant Spread: 4 to 6 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Fruit: Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Orange
Other: Orange-red with yellow center
Bloom Size: 2"-3"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Espalier
Uses: Provides winter interest
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Other info: Allow seedpods to dry on plant.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Tip
Cuttings: Root
Layering
Stolons and runners

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Common names
  • Cross Vine
  • Crossvine
  • Cross-Vine
  • Trumpet Flower

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Location: KYLE
Date: 2019-04-06
Location: White Pine nature preserve, Chatham county, North Carolina
Date: February 10, 2023
Cross vine #36; RAB p. 1183, 167-1-1; AG p. 398, 78-1-1; LHB p. 9
Location: KYLE
Date: 2020-03-26
When it blooms, it really blooms!
Location: Kyle, TX
Date: 2021-03-30
Wouldn't know that the crossvine was covered in snow and ice a mo
Location: My yard in Arlington, Texas.
Date: Spring 2010
Close up of the flowers from the front.
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2020-04-23
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2020-04-23
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-04
Location: San Antonio, TX
Date: 2020-03-11
Location: Fielder House Butterfly garden Arlington, Texas.
Date: Spring 2011
This vine is amazing.
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-04-13
Location: My yard in Arlington, Texas.
Date: Spring 2010
Close up of the flowers from the side.

Photo: Steve Shivley
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-08-05
Location: Kyle, Texas
Date: 2018-03-26
A hummingbird favorite, the profuse blooms of the cross vine have

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
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Location: Dayton, TN
Date: 2014-05-02
Location: Kyle, Texas
Date: 2017-09-21
A tough, pretty perennial vine that attracts hummingbirds
Location: My yard in Arlington, Texas.
Date: Summer 2000
My Crossvine and me.
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-05-27
First seed pod
Location: Mississippi
Date: 2015-11-28
Seed pods and seeds
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-08-05

Photo courtesy of Brushwood Nursery
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Location: Dayton, TN
Date: 2013-08-09
This trumpet grows wild on my property climbing as high as 40 fee
Location: Dayton, TN
Date: 2014-05-02
Location: North Central TX Zone 8a
Date: 2017-12-30
In the alley a few doors down from me
Location: Bowling Green, Ky 
Date: 2013-09-29
This bloomed in the spring and again in late September
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Comments:
  • Posted by frostweed (Arlington, Texas - Zone 8a) on Oct 26, 2011 2:19 PM concerning plant:
    Crossvine is a show stopper when in bloom.
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