Plant Identification Learning Module:
Ornamentals

Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

Vigorous twining, spreading vine. Tapered trumpet-shaped blooms to two inches in red, scarlet, coral, or yellow. Dark green, smooth leaves, oppositeentireovate, with pinnate veins. The upper leaves just below the flower cluster are fused together. Current year stem growth is reddish.


Coral honeysuckle plant
(cc) 2004, Stan Shebs. This photo is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5.

Coral honeysuckle flower
© 2006, Jack Scheper. Floridata.com