OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Dipsacales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Diervilla sessilifolia   FAMILY Diervillaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Diervilla sessilifolia   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-01-002a:

Diervilla sessilifolia var. sessilifolia   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Diervilla sessilifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle


         To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm0407q_09

July    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm0407q_11

July    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm060723_197

July    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Leaves, at least the upper ones, are sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmdsessilifolia_1072

July?        

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

Bill Sharpton    gws467_a

August        NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Small, mildly fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers at branch tips & in leaf axils, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm180821_4003

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Leaves have no leafstalk and are attached directly to the branches, per Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962).

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm180821_4004

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Sepals 2-3mm long, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_d_sessilifolia_smooth

August        

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm211022_4453

October    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm211022_4455

October    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Fruit a slender, beaked, woody capsule persisting into winter, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Diervilla sessilifolia, Smooth Southern Bush-honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm211022_4462

October    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Diervilla sessilifolia   FAMILY Diervillaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Diervilla sessilifolia   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-01-002a:
Diervilla sessilifolia var. sessilifolia   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Diervilla sessilifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

467

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: rock outcrops, ridges, landslide scars, trail margins, other rocky open places, streambanks, at moderate to high elevations, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite
Margins serrate
Leaves do not have stipules.

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 exserted stamens
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!



 


Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME: