Anyone know what this is?

20 years ago

I've posted this in the Name that plant forum too, but thought I'd check with some of the local experts as well.

This looks an awful lot like trumpet vine. It's cropping up all over out new yard, literally hundreds of yards away from any known trumpet vine. However, we did spread a couple of truck load of dirt in the area in question...

Anyway, I'd like to know if it's worth trying to save a couple of them or to keep on mowing them down. (I've already "rescued" a few butterfly weeds and milk weed from the field.)

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brandon7 TN_zone7
20 years ago
The plant in your picture is Campsis radicans. It's a very very common weed in this area. It's in just about every field I have visited. You can call it "trumpet vine", which is a correct name, but "cow itch" is what most people call it 'round here.
brandon7 TN_zone7
20 years ago
Don't rescue this rascal! Spray round-up on it! But, if you do decide to keep it, I have a field that you would be more than welcome to come over and rescue more from. LOL
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tngreenthumb
Original Author
20 years ago
Thanks brandon.

I took a walk around the front part of the lot yesterday afternoon. If I stop cutting for a couple of years this stuff would come after my house!

I did dig up a couple for my wife to "tame", but the rest will suffer the bite and sting of the blade.

Only to keep coming back....until one of us dies.

(Don't bet on me.)
maternut
20 years ago
Joe that stuff has a root system that will go five or six feet deep. Now the people up north pays good money for humming bird vine. Pack the stuff up and send north. I had a good friend in ILL. buy the stuff and I told her it was cow itch vine. She thought I was crazy until she saw my yard. Would be a rich man if I could sell all I have.
Norm
magicman2u
20 years ago
Hmmmm I paid 18.99 for one Trumpet Vine Plant up here in Buffalo,NY!
brandon7 TN_zone7
20 years ago
Norm, maybe we should start selling this wonderful plant. We could sell them for $0.01 each and get $18.98 for shipping and handling. LOL
tngreenthumb
Original Author
20 years ago
Yeah, but who has a backhoe? I think picking seeds would be the way to go. There's always a ton of them.

Now, on to more serious matters... If this is Campsis radicans, what is the "trumpet vine" my wife bought at the farmer's market? It looks like this only less vigorous. Dainty by comparison.

Is that just because it doesn't have a 3 acre root network to spring from? Yet...
playin_in_dirt
20 years ago
Oh no. I think I have a headache now. Or is the pain in my neck??? I actually PLANTED a yellow-flowering one of these on my fence and I've noticed it has come up 4 ft further down the fence. I'm assuming the hybrid that flowers yellow is as invasive? I'm also assuming cutting it down is not going to solve the problem at this point. Maybe getting it off the fence, if possible and spraying with round-up? It's the second yr it's been there so is there a possibility I can dig it up? I have a friend in New York State that thinks I am an angel for sending her honeysuckle vines. She LOVES them... they are her favorite and she has them on arbours and fences and her neighbors envy her!!! Maybe I can get her to fly down here and get this trumpet vine!