Catalpa

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Bignoniaceae

• Scientific Name

  Catalpa

• Description

  Genus Description - Cal splitting irregularly or more commonly into 2 unequal lobes; cor large, evidently bilabiate, with an oblique, campanulate tube and 5 spreading lobes erose or crisped on the margin; stamens commonly 2, about as long as the cor-tube, accompanied by 3 minute staminodia, or occasionally 4 with 1 staminodium; fr elongate, cylindric, bilocular, loculicidal; seeds flat, narrowly oblong, the 2 wings terminating in hairs; trees with opposite or whorled, simple, cordate-ovate to rotund, entire or shallowly lobed lvs and terminal panicles of large, white or yellowish fls ± spotted or mottled with yellow and purple. 10+, e. N. Amer. and e. Asia.

• Common Names

  catalpa