Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
Yellow, orange and red flowers from March into July, worked by confusing bumble bees and tri-colored bumble bees. It grows wild in 80 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 15 ft to 20 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange and red, Mar to Jul
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 10 in of soil
- Kind
- Vine
On a trellis
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 36 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 16 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 10 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Confusing bumble bee (Bombus perplexus), Tri-colored bumble bee (Bombus ternarius), Mason bee (Osmia bucephala), Blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria)
Grows well with
Yaupon Holly
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Inkberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Allegheny Serviceberry
Pink Azalea
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Flame Azalea
Facts from the Quercus record for Lonicera sempervirens.