Japanese Honeysuckle Scientific Name: Lonicera japonica
Description: Woody, shreddy-barked, twining or trailing vine often to 18'. Leaves opposite, half-evergreen, short-petioled.
Habitat: Low moist ground along streams, fence rows, and border of woods.
Range: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana; eastward to Florida and north to Massachusetts; also in Oregon and Washington. Introduced into America from Asia and freely escaping cultivation especially in the Southern States.
Type: Vine Source:Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southwest by Robert Vines
Photograph: James R. Allison, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, United States from www.forestryimages.org. |
