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Diervilla sessilifolia (Southern Bush Honeysuckle) is a deciduous shrub native to the southern Appalachian region of the southeastern United States -- North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama -- where it grows in rocky, open, high-elevation sites: ridges, trail edges, rock outcrops, and streambanks. It forms a dense, mounded, thicket-forming shrub to about 3-5 feet tall and wide, spreading by underground suckers once established. Opposite, toothed, glossy dark green leaves grow on square stems, and clusters of fragrant, sulfur-yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers appear at the branch tips from late spring into midsummer, drawing bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
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A true native of the southern Appalachian mountains, found on rocky ridges, outcrops, and streambanks in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Its fragrant summer flowers provide nectar and pollen for pollinating insects and nectar for hummingbirds. |