Southern Bush-honeysuckle
Diervilla sessilifolia
Yellow flowers from June into August, worked by bumble bees and sweat bees. It grows wild in 1 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4 ft to 5 ft tall, 4 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Jun to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 7 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Bumble bee (Bombus flavidus), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum coreopsis), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum creberrimum)
Grows well with
New England Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
New Jersey Tea
Brown-eyed SusanFacts from the Quercus record for Diervilla sessilifolia.