General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Strongly acid (5.1 – 5.5)
Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 6 - 12 feet
Plant Spread: 3 - 5 feet
Leaves: Semi-evergreen
Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Reddish-orange berries
Fruiting Time: Fall
Flowers: Showy
Other: Mildly fragrant
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Other: May to June, with some sporadic additional bloom until Fall
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Toxicity: Fruit is poisonous
Other: The berries are mildly toxic

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Common names
  • Honeysuckle

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Location: central NC
Date: 04/19/2019
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2015-04-26

Date: May 18, 2011 12:00 PM

Courtesy Sunlight Gardens, used with permission
Location: Clarksville, TN
Date: 2018-05-11

Photo courtesy of Brushwood Nursery
Location: Beautiful Tennessee 
Date: 4-2014
almost open
Location: Beautiful Tennessee 
Date: 4-13-2014
Love the color

Date: 2004-05-27

Photo courtesy of Brushwood Nursery
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2015-04-26
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Date: 2019-12-21

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
  • Uploaded by vic
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Comments:
  • Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on Apr 23, 2013 2:48 AM concerning plant:
    A yellow flowering Honeysuckle.

  • Posted by Newyorkrita (North Shore, Long Island, NY ) on Sep 4, 2013 8:57 PM concerning plant:
    John Clayton stands out in my garden as it is my only yellow honeysuckle. Flowers profusely all summer long. Like all trumpet shaped honeysuckles, it has no scent but the hummingbirds love it anyway.

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