Fly Honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis) in the Honeysuckles Database

Unfortunately, I have never seen this native shrub in the wild that grows from southern Ontario & Quebec to Nova Scotia, in most of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, down the Appalachians almost to Georgia, northeast Ohio, most of Michigan, northwest Indiana, and northern Wisconsin & Minnesota. It grows in bogs, swamps, dry woods, and in cool deep moist woods. It likes stony or sandy or silt or clay loam soils with pH 6 to 8.5. Less common in pure clay soils. It grows fast and has a fibrous, shallow, spreading root system like other honeysuckle shrubs. It is very tolerant of shade. Its opposite leaves are supposed to be fringed with hairs and only turn a greenish-yellow in the fall, dropping in late November. The tubular bell-like trumpet flowers come in nodding pairs and are yellowish-white in May and are slightly fragrant. Resistant to heat, drought, and salt. A very few native plant nurseries grow this species. I just bought three seedlings from Reeseville Ridge Nursery in central Wisconsin by mail, planted them in pots, and look forward to their future. I love rare American native plants.

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