Alternate name: Coral Honeysuckle
Family: Caprifoliaceae, Honeysuckle view all from this family
Description This vine has showy, trumpet-shaped flowers, red outside, yellow inside, in several whorled clusters at the ends of the stems.
Flowers: 1-2" (2.5-5 cm) long; corolla 5-lobed.
Leaves: 1 1/2-3" (3.8-7.5 cm) long; opposite, the uppermost pairs so united that stem seems to pierce them, oblong, deep green, with whitish bloom beneath.
Fruit: scarlet berries.
Height: vine.
Flower April-August.
Habitat Woods and thickets.
Range Massachusetts and New York; south to Florida; west to Texas, Ohio, Iowa, and Nebraska. Those farther north may have escaped cultivation.
Discussion This beautiful, slender, climbing vine is frequently visited by hummingbirds. The species name refers to its evergreen habit, especially in the South. Upper leaves are united. Five additional species also have upper leaves united. They differ from L. sempervirens in having wide spreading flower lobes.
