Red Honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica)
Red honeysuckle is a vine, but not the traditional green vine that grows up from the ground every year. Instead it becomes woody. It can grow from 5, to reportedly, 10 in feet in height.
Leaves are opposite, smooth on top, and pale to white underneath. The top two leaves are joined together and small yellow to (usually) red trumpet shaped flowers grow out of the center of the leaves.
Berries grow once the flowers have been pollinated. They start out green and turn orange and red. The vine can twine up a tree, or grow on its own rooting where it touches the ground.
Hummingbirds and moths feed on the nectar and it is also a host plant for the hummingbird clearwing and other butterflies and moths as well.
It grows in the woods, on the edge of woods and also in full sun in medium-wet to medium-dry soil throughout the state of Michigan.
Red honeysuckle is a vine, but not the traditional green vine that grows up from the ground every year. Instead it becomes woody. It can grow from 5, to reportedly, 10 in feet in height.
Leaves are opposite, smooth on top, and pale to white underneath. The top two leaves are joined together and small yellow to (usually) red trumpet shaped flowers grow out of the center of the leaves.
Berries grow once the flowers have been pollinated. They start out green and turn orange and red. The vine can twine up a tree, or grow on its own rooting where it touches the ground.
Hummingbirds and moths feed on the nectar and it is also a host plant for the hummingbird clearwing and other butterflies and moths as well.
It grows in the woods, on the edge of woods and also in full sun in medium-wet to medium-dry soil throughout the state of Michigan.
Red honeysuckle is a vine, but not the traditional green vine that grows up from the ground every year. Instead it becomes woody. It can grow from 5, to reportedly, 10 in feet in height.
Leaves are opposite, smooth on top, and pale to white underneath. The top two leaves are joined together and small yellow to (usually) red trumpet shaped flowers grow out of the center of the leaves.
Berries grow once the flowers have been pollinated. They start out green and turn orange and red. The vine can twine up a tree, or grow on its own rooting where it touches the ground.
Hummingbirds and moths feed on the nectar and it is also a host plant for the hummingbird clearwing and other butterflies and moths as well.
It grows in the woods, on the edge of woods and also in full sun in medium-wet to medium-dry soil throughout the state of Michigan.
