Trumpet Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
A perennial vine native to North America notable for its striking display of tubular scarlet red flower clusters in late spring through early summer and red berries in the fall.
Trumpet Honesuckle
Trumpet or Coral Honeysuckle, native to the Eastern and Southern United States, is evergreen in the South, but deciduous in the North. The clusters of showy scarlet flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies but are not fragrant. The species was introduced to Europe in 1686 and Bartram’s Nursery in Philadelphia first offered it in 1783. Jefferson listed Trumpet Honeysuckle as an ornamental native plant in his book Notes on the State of Virginia (1782).
Long, tubular flowers are rich, scarlet-orange outside and yellowish-orange inside, produced in clusters in late spring and sporadically through summer; foliage is dark green above and bluish green beneath; forms red berries in fall that are attractive to birds
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