CAPRIFOLIACEAE - - Honeysuckle Family

* Lonicera maackii (Ruprecht) Herder — Amur Honeysuckle

* Non-native. Native of e. Asia (Korea, China, Japan).

Habitat:

Suburban woodlands, moist forests, fencerows; native of e. Asia (Korea, China, Japan). This is one of worst “shrub-weeds”, aggressively invasive in various parts of eastern North America, as in the vicinity of DC and in calcareous substrate parts of the interior South.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].