Trumpet Honeysuckle

(Lonicera sempervirens)

 

Color photograph: Homer D. House. 1918. Wildflowers of New York.

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Trumpet Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

Identification: A vine. Flowers consisting mostly of a very long fused, tubular corolla, red outside and yellow inside. Stamens protruding. Flowers arranged in apical, tight clusters. Berry red. Upper leaves rounded and broadly fused around the stem (perfoliate). Lower leaves ovate, in opposite pairs.

Distribution: Iowa in the west to New England in the east, southward to Florida and Texas.

Habitat: Trumpet Honeysuckle is found in woods and thickets.

Flowering period: April to September.

Trumpet Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

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The elongate red flowers with yellow interiors, the vine habit, and the perfoliate upper leaves are distinctive for this species.

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