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blooming time. Now, in August, fences are covered with it and the deep orange - though occasionally yellow to scarlet - flowers make a fine show along country roads. It will keep on producing flowers until the end of the month. Farther south it begins blooming in early June. In the upper Virginia Piedmont the flowers begin to make a show in July.
The scientific name Campis radicans, has a nice ring to it. Campis means curved and refers to the stamens (male part of a flower) that do not protrude out of the bloom. The fact leads me to believe that hummingbirds are agents for pollination. “Radicans” means rooting and actually refers to climbing by aerial roots.
Campis radicans has a number of common names: trumpet-vine, trumpet-creeper, trumpet flower and cow-itch vine. The last one puzzles me. I have found no explanation for it. Does it cause cows to itch or relieve a cow’s itching? I found a bit of reference to this in one book, “Flowers of the South” (Wilhelmina Greene and Hugh Bloomquist; University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 1953). This book, sadly out of print, states: “...Also called the cow-itch vine because of its reputed poisonous qualities to
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