Index / Search / Lonicera maackii
§1 Plant
Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Herder
vernacular Amur honeysuckle — species · Caprifoliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Lonicera
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 189 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 25–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–8
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 16 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 148,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 189 counties across 22 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 49 I ▾
- Barren 21009
- Bath 21011
- Boone 21015
- Bourbon 21017
- Boyle 21021
- Bracken 21023
- Breathitt 21025
- Bullitt 21029
- Campbell 21037
- Carroll 21041
- Clark 21049
- Edmonson 21061
- Fayette 21067
- Fleming 21069
- Franklin 21073
- Garrard 21079
- Grant 21081
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Hopkins 21107
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Lee 21129
- Leslie 21131
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Madison 21151
- Marion 21155
- Mason 21161
- McCracken 21145
- Menifee 21165
- Mercer 21167
- Montgomery 21173
- Nicholas 21181
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Owsley 21189
- Pendleton 21191
- Powell 21197
- Robertson 21201
- Scott 21209
- Shelby 21211
- Spencer 21215
- Trimble 21223
- Warren 21227
- Wayne 21231
- Woodford 21239
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LOMA6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7902463 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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