Definitely wisteria. Can't ID the species without a closer photo, but going by the long flower racemes, I suspect it's just Wisteria sinenis, which is invasive. The natives are smaller, some re-bloom, and they won't take over the neighborhood. See: W. frutescens and W. macrostachya and their several varieties.

Those flowers will produce seed pods that pop/snap when ripe. Those seeds can be ejected quite a distance. I planted one years ago, took several years before finally eliminating it.

Wow! Thank you. I had a neighbor with one and she and her DH had to continually prune it so that it would not get under their shingled house siding. I love the blooms and always wanted one. She gave me seeds but they didn’t germinate.

Years ago I planted what I thought was a small wisteria plant. Then got busy. The plant grew. Turns out it is an orange trumpet vine. It is large, but sprawling on the ground as I had to remove what it was climbing on. I asked my DH to let it blossom this year (July, Aug) because the humming birds like it. Maybe at the end of the summer I should try to begin eradicating it. Is Trumpet Vine that bad?

Thanks for your help.

Yes, trumpet vine is just as bad. I have several very large vines that I tolerate because of the hummingbird attraction. The trumpet vine seed pods contain seeds with a fluffy parachute that travel far. I am constantly uprooting seedlings.

Thanks. I have removed some of the seedpods in past years.

I read that the plant is “flammable.” Also that trimming it encourages more root spread.

My vine was climbing into a since removed bush, but is now sprawling over the ground. I will keep it for this year and am looking around for something to support it — without my needing to build a robust trellis ($ lumber, time).

Trumpet vine is ”native?”

We grown a lot of flowers and flowering shrubs and keep clean sugar water for the hummingbirds, so they will still visit without the orange trumpet vine. Too bad asparagus, sweet corn, lobster and clams won’t grow in my yard or as vigorously.

We have escaped Concord grape vine everywhere as well as Virginia creeper vine.

If by "trumpet vine" you mean Campsis radicans, yes it is native. And therefore cannot technically be considered invasive. But it has an extremely aggressive nature and once established, will begin to produce copious root shoots. If you search the VINES forum, you will find endless comments about this and how difficult the vine is to remove completely. Even after the mother plant as been cut down, the remaining roots will continue to produce new shoots indefinitely. Most gardeners consider it a major PITA!!

Mine never self-seeded but it did produce zillions of shoots from the roots even after removal and took a good 5 years to elminiate completely.

IMO, wisteria, even the non-native and potentially invasive species, is much easier to control or eliminate.

In Southern California campsis radicans can send up shoots some distance from the main plant. I battle shoots from my neighbor’s plant trying to pop up through the broken concrete that paves a side patio.

But yeah, hummingbirds are worth the effort.