Tacoma stans
Family: Bigoniaceae
Plant Description: Typically, 3–25 ft (1–8 m) tall and 3–20 ft (0.9–6 m) wide. Has bright yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom from spring through fall. Leaves opposite, odd-pinnate with 3–13 serrated leaflets, 2–10 cm long, bright green above. An irregular shaped shrub. Flowers are unisexual and monecious. Inflorescence is panicle, raceme. Compound leaves (odd pinnate) are divided into 5–13 elliptic to lanceolate leaflets, with serrated margins, with lighter in color below.
Plant Trivia:
Field Identification: This is a showy, semi-evergreen shrub native to the American Southwest, Mexico, and parts of Central and South America
Occurrence: Native to the Chihuahuan Desert, Southern Texas Plains, and adjacent Mexico, it also grows in the West Indies, Florida, and parts of South AmericaMostly in yards, parks, and commercial landscaping.
Bloom Period: Prolific bloomer throughout most of the year.
Plant Use: Landscaping. Nectar-insects, bees, hummingbirds. Seeds-Small mammals. Leaves-browsed by mammals. Larvae host for Dogface butterfly.
Propagation: Seeds or stem cuttings of new growth.
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