When does Amur honeysuckle bloom in Tennessee?

Most often in April. Across 116 dated, research-grade observations of Lonicera maackii in Tennessee, the flowering season runs roughly April.

Peak April In flower 116 Examined 517 State Tennessee

Flowering 116 in flower of 517 examined

26%

82%

40%

50%

17%

Proportion of examined Lonicera maackii in Tennessee in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	9	0%	0% to 30%
Feb	0	2	too few examined
Mar	20	78	26%	17% to 36%
Apr	86	105	82%	73% to 88%
May	2	5	40%	12% to 77%
Jun	3	6	50%	19% to 81%
Jul	2	12	17%	5% to 45%
Aug	3	64	5%	2% to 13%
Sep	0	72	0%	0% to 5%
Oct	0	82	0%	0% to 4%
Nov	0	79	0%	0% to 5%
Dec	0	3	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Lonicera maackii in Tennessee observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 116 of 517 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Tennessee found Lonicera maackii in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Tennessee, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Lonicera maackii

Amur honeysuckle

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Tennessee. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.