ColorChallenge - MondayRed - Coral Honeysuckle
Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
Coral honeysuckle, a North American native vine that hummingbirds LOVE. Native Distribution: S. Maine to Florida and east Texas; scattered inland to Illinois. Introduced in eastern Canada.
Coral honeysuckle blooms all summer and makes a great replacement for the horrendously invasive (in North America) Asian import, Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica).
Coral honeysuckle info: https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LOSE
Japanese honeysuckle info: http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-directory/lonicera-japonica/
Invasive Plants: If you're not familiar with the problems associated with introduced invasive plants in the natural areas of our planet, here are a couple of good introductions (below) These articles are from the North American (Specifically, United States) perspective, but the issue is certainly not limited to this continent. https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/ and https://www.doi.gov/invasivespecies/about-us
This is my contribution to #ColorChallenge #MondayRed by @kalemandra.