Northern catalpa
NativeCatalpa speciosa
Trumpet creeper (Bignoniaceae) · Other broadleaf · 40–70 ft
Knowing it
Huge heart-shaped leaves, orchid-like white flowers in June and long bean pods. Native to the Bootheel bottoms; planted and naturalized statewide.
What a tree company sees
Brittle wood and hollow trunks; drops limbs, pods and flowers. Catalpa worms strip it some summers (and make fish bait).
Recorded in 43 counties
- Adair County
- Atchison County
- Audrain County
- Barry County
- Boone County
- Buchanan County
- Butler County
- Callaway County
- Camden County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Clay County
- Cole County
- Franklin County
- Greene County
- Harrison County
- Howard County
- Howell County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Laclede County
- Lafayette County
- Livingston County
- Macon County
- Marion County
- McDonald County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Pettis County
- Phelps County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Ripley County
- Schuyler County
- Scott County
- St. Charles County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Texas County
- Vernon County
- Warren County
- Wayne County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.