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Distinguishing traits. One of our longest-blooming flowering plants, trumpet honeysuckle begins the season with a heavy flush of spring blooms, then continues flowering from stem tips through the season, often continuing through late fall. Notice how the long tubular flower corollas are perfectly sized and shaped to accommodate the long beak and tongue of a hummingbird, which is one of its primary pollinators. Only pollinators with a long tongue can reach the sweet nectar hidden deep inside these tubes, in the process picking up and distributing pollen to other flowers. Honeysuckle depends upon the presence of hummingbirds and other local long-tongued pollinators such as bumble bees, mason bees and leafcutter bees to set seed and ensure species survival.Don’t confuse trumpet honeysuckle with the non-native and highly invasive Asian honeysuckles that are taking over natural areas in the eastern U.S. Nurseries still sell some of these invasive honeysuckles (or hybrids of them), so check labels carefully and avoid buying Lonicera japonica, L. morrowii or L. tatarica. Trumpet honeysuckle is also sometimes confused with trumpet creeper vine (Campsis radicans), which also is an eastern ...
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