General Landscape Uses: Vine for fences, trellises, and arbors. Not aggressive.
Description: Twining, climbing vine to 15 feet with smooth, 1-3 inch leaves and showy red to orange tubular flowers.
Dimensions: Vine climbing up to 15 feet in height.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Native Range: Eastern and southern United States south to Sarasota, De Soto, Highlands, Seminole, and Volusia counties.
Native Habitats: Rich hammocks, sandhills, open woodlands.
Soils: Moist, well-drained sandy or limestone soils, with humusy top layer.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate to high; grows best with some organic content and may languish in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance: Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance: Moderate; generally requires moist soils, but tolerant of short periods of drought once established.
Light Requirements: Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color: Scarlet red to orange.
Flower Characteristics: Showy.
Flowering Season: Spring to Fall.
Fruit: Scarlet red berry.
Wildlife and Ecology: Attracts pollinators. Berries attractive to wildlife.
Horticultural Notes: Grown from cuttings, seed, layering, division
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