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Shiny lipstick-red buds Synonym(s) Quamoclit coccinea Common name scarlet creeper; red morning glory Family convolvulaceae Life cycle annual Flowers red (summer) Size vine to 10 ft Light sun From seed germinate warm detailed seed-starting info below Seed ripens mid-October Carmine-red tubular flowers and attractive foliage. Supposed to attract hummingbirds. In these pictures, you see ours climbing through and up the now-defunct bench in the side garden, and sprawling out into adjacent shrubs. I gambled on some self-seeding so I wouldn't have to start seed indoors the year after - and got lucky. Although the show probably started a bit later without the head start.

In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: side garden, back yard

Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list

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Seed-starting details for this plant

2005. Seed from '04/'05 HPS/MAG exchange. Lightly sandpapered seeds. Baggy 75F (25%G, 2-3d). Successively more aggressive nicking led to complete germination; some required taking an actual chip out of the seed coat.
2005. June 4: 10 seeds direct-sowed, after knife-nicking. June 11: 9G

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