Lonicera sempervirensL.

coral honeysuckle

WFO wfo-0001290705 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Melissa McMasters
fig. a Melissa McMasters, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-11 / obs. 205634518
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. b Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196373682
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. c Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196372833
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Tom Field
fig. d Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201546505
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Heather DeGaetano
fig. e Heather DeGaetano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196040458
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. f Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194502846
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. g Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194535645
Lonicera sempervirens, photographed by Rebecca Gimenez Husted
fig. h Rebecca Gimenez Husted, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193808768

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Flowering n = 2,757 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,757 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alaternus sempervirens Roehl. ex Steud.
  • Caprifolium sempervirens (L.) Moench
  • Kantemon angustifolium Raf.
  • Lonicera caroliniana Marshall
  • Lonicera coccinea Pers.
  • Lonicera connata Meerb.
  • Lonicera flammea Salisb.
  • Lonicera magnevilleae hort. ex Dippel
  • Lonicera sempervirens var. caroliniana (Marshall) Castigl.
  • Lonicera sempervirens var. hirsutula Rehder
  • Lonicera sempervirens var. major Aiton
  • Lonicera sempervirens var. minor Aiton
  • Lonicera sempervirens var. sempervirens
  • Lonicera sempervirens var. virginiana (Marshall) Castigl.
  • Lonicera speciosa Wender.
  • Lonicera virginiana Marshall
  • Periclymenum sempervirens (L.) Mill.
  • Phenianthus semperivens (L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks.
  • Phenianthus sempervirens (L.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.