{"id":964,"date":"2017-02-01T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:10:25","slug":"bells-honeysuckle-lonicera-x-bella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Bell\u2019s honeysuckle <em>(Lonicera<\/em> x <em>bella)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bells_honeysuckle_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-965\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bells_honeysuckle_01.jpg\" alt=\"Bell\u2019s honeysuckle\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bells_honeysuckle_01.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bells_honeysuckle_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bells_honeysuckle_01-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are six Asian bush honeysuckles that have been introduced into North America and are now naturalized here. Three of these, Bell\u2019s, Morrow\u2019s, and Tartarian honeysuckle, are found in Minnesota. A fourth, Amur honeysuckle, has spread to Wisconsin and Iowa and will probably reach Minnesota soon.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Bell\u2019s honeysuckle <em>(Lonicera<\/em> x <em>bella)<\/em> was widely planted in eastern and mid-western North America, including Minnesota, to control erosion and as an ornamental. It has since spread aggressively to a broad range of natural and semi-natural habitats. It leafs out early in the spring, grows vigorously and large, crowds other plants, shades the ground, and uses available soil moisture and nutrients. It may also release a chemical into the soil that further inhibits the growth of other species.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s honeysuckle is a horticultural cultivated fertile hybrid of Morrow\u2019s honeysuckle and Tartarian honeysuckle. As a hybrid, it shares characteristics of both of its parents, and is difficult to distinguish from them. Bell\u2019s honeysuckle is identified by its leaves, which are sparsely to moderately hairy on the underside, at least along the main veins; and by the minute bractlets at the base of each flower, which are at least half as long as the ovary which they subtend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/Bells_honeysuckle.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/Bells_honeysuckle.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=964\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are six Asian bush honeysuckles that have been introduced into North America and are now naturalized here. Three of these, Bell\u2019s, Morrow\u2019s, and Tartarian honeysuckle, are found in Minnesota. A fourth, Amur honeysuckle, has spread to Wisconsin and Iowa and will probably reach Minnesota soon. In the past, Bell\u2019s honeysuckle (Lonicera x bella) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}