Honeysuckle
(Lonicera sp.)
 
Chinese Woodbine
(L. tragophylla)
 
Type: Perennial
Zone: 6
 
Fruit and Flower
Bright yellow flowers all summer; red berries in fall.
 
Comments
Prefers limestone soil and shade.  Twines.
 

Everblooming
(L. heckrotti)
 
Type: Perennial
Zone: 4
 
Fruit and Flower
Trumpet-shaped flowers in summer, purple outside, yellow inside.
 
Comments
One of the best climbing honeysuckles.  Blooms all summer.
 

Hall's Japanese
(L. japonica 'halliana')
 
Type: Perennial
Zone: 5
 
Fruit and Flower
Fragrant white flowers in late spring; black berries in fall.
 
Comments
Popular.  Grows in almost any soil in sun or shade.  Good ground cover.  Turns bronze in fall.  Semievergreen to evergreen.  Grows rapidly.
 

Henry
(L. henryi)
 
Type: Perennial
Zone: 6
 
Fruit and Flower
Red, purple, or yellow flowers in early summer; black berries in fall.
 
Comments
Good ground cover.  Semievergreen in the North; evergreen in the South.  Twines.
 

Sweet
Also called italian woodbine
(L. caprifolium)
 
Type: Perennial
Zone: 6
 
Fruit and Flower
Small fragrant ivory flowers in late spring; orange-red berries in late summer.
 
Comments
Leaves bluish-green underneath.  Twines up to 20 feet.
 

Trumpet
(L. sempervirens)
 
Type: Perennial
Zone: 4
 
Fruit and Flower
Orange-scarlet flowers all summer; red berries in fall.
 
Comments
Hardy honeysuckle.  Grows rapidly.  Withstands dry soil.  Semi-evergreen to evergreen.