? Bush Honeysuckle
Northern bush honeysuckle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Dipsacales Family: Caprifoliaceae Genus: Diervilla
Species
Diervilla sessilifolia Diervilla lonicera Diervilla rivularis Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 133 KB)Diervilla lonicera, Northern bush honeysuckle. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families may not be a complete list Adoxaceae (moschatel family) Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle family) Diervillaceae Dipsacaceae (teasel family) Linnaeaceae (twinflower family) Morinaceae Valerianaceae (valerian family) The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons. ... Genera See text The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa. ...

Bush Honeysuckle is a name given to any of three species of deciduous shrubs of the genus Diervilla in the family Caprifoliaceae. The three species are Diervilla sessilifolia (Southern bush honeysuckle), Diervilla lonicera (Northern bush honeysuckle) and Diervilla rivularis (Mountain bush honeysuckle). All are indigenous to eastern North America. 'Dierville' is named after a French surgeon Dr. Dierville, who introduced the plant to Europe around 1700. Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... A willow shrub A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... In biology, a species is, loosely speaking, a group of related organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ...

The bush honeysuckles are low in height (1-2 m), of small to medium diameter (1-2 m), and develop into colonies by means of spreading underground rhizomes. Their leaves are simple, opposite and either oval or lanceolate in shape with a toothed edge. The fall color varies between yellow, orange and red. Small tubular flowers, typically pale yellow, are produced in June and July. In biology, a colony (from Latin colonia) means several individual organisms of the same species living closely together, usually for mutual benefit, such as stronger defences, the ability to attack bigger prey etc. ... In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal, usually underground stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Autumn (fall in North America) is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition between summer and winter. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...

The bush honeysuckles are commonly confused with the common wild honeysuckle (Lonicera tartarica), or the Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), both members of the closely related genus Lonicera. Binomial name Lonicera japonica Thunb. ... For an article on the New Zealand honeysuckle tree see Rewarewa. ...

Alternative names

• Northern bush honeysuckle: Low bush honeysuckle, Dwarf bush honeysuckle, Yellow-flowered upright honeysuckle, Life-of-Man.
• Mountain bush honeysuckle: Georgia bush honeysuckle, Hairy bush honeysuckle