Northern Bush Honeysuckle RPBB - Diervilla lonicera

Northern Bush honeysuckle is a small (3 feet tall) shrub of Gravel, cool forests that can add habitat layering for birds under and around taller shrubs and trees. Because it freely suckers and produces tubular yellow flowers that attract hummingbirds and diverse pollinators, it is considered a good native substitute for exotic, invasive honeysuckles. Favored by the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, it is also larval host of the Snowberry Clearwing and Gray Scooping moths. In autumn, it displays red foliage. Soil Type: Sand, Gravel, Loamy less fertile clay Soil Conditions: Dry Flower Color: Yellow Flower Time: June-July Height: 3' Light: Part-Sun Features: Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, Hummingbirds, Pollinators, Larval Host Credits: Photo/Image credit: Info courtesy of IllinoisWildflowers.Info and IllinoisWildflowers.Info; Photo courtesy Copyright © 2021 Bruce Patterson. Info courtesy of gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org