Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Low maintenance and showy, Trumpet Honeysuckle blooms intermittently until frost with coral flowers and red fruit present together. A more compact cultivar, ‘John Clayton,’ discovered in 1991 on the grounds of a 17th century Virginia church, produces fragrant yellow flowers and copious orange-red fruit. The species name “sempervirens” refers to the plant’s evergreen habit, particularly in the South.* The Virginia Native Plant Society selected Trumpet Honeysuckle as Wildflower of the Year in 2014.
*It is native to DC, common in DE, and clustered mainly in MD’s Coastal Plain and extreme southwestern corner of PA. In VA, it is frequent in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont and infrequent in the mountains. It is native to NoVA except for Loudoun County.
Learn more about Lonicera sempervirens.
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