Buy Lonicera crassifolia

Also Known As

Creeping Honeysuckle

Plant type

perennial, groundcover, vine

size

H: 2"-4"
W: 1'-3'

planting zones

7a-11

3.5" | $15

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Lonicera crassifolia plant details

Lonicera crassifolia is a broadleaf evergreen perennial groundcover vine with green foliage. In spring and summer cream and yellow flowers emerge followed by black and blue fruit. Features glossy texture. Grows well with mostly sun - shade and even moisture water. Adapts to various soil conditions. Does well in rich and well-drained soil.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Lonicera crassifolia

Plant type: perennial groundcover vine
Plant family: caprifoliaceae
Foliage: evergreen green
Mature size: 1 FT - 3 FT - wide, 2 IN - 4 IN - tall
Flowers: cream and yellow blooms in spring and summer
Uses: container plant, fall color, winter interest, woodland garden, year round interest

GROWING CONDITIONS for Lonicera crassifolia

USDA Zones: 7a - 11
Sun exposure: mostly sun - shade
Watering frequency: even moisture

Soil needs: rich and well-drained

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Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Moderately creeping, this dense, crassifoliate evergreen vine or ground cover mat from the woods of China has much potential yet to be realized. Small, round, dark green, glossy leaves are studded with exquisite, unscented, small, butter-yellow and orange-pink flowers in spring resulting in blue-black berries in autumn and winter. A spiller for a pot, a shade ground cover, or a finely textured climber that adheres to crack and crevice: adorable (and that's the first time I've ever used that word, so you know I mean it). Minimum temperature: 0°F

By: Dancing Oaks Nursery

An amazing ground cover honeysuckle. This evergreen runner is a non-invasive sub-shrubby vine that forms a completely prostrate mat of tiny, rounded and glossy leaves in pairs. The pink honeysuckle flowers emerge in early summer and quickly shift to a deep golden yellow. In foliage and habit, it is strongly reminiscent of Mitchella repens . From my collection in the Sino-Himalaya. Easy in sun or shade and perfect under rhododendrons and other shrubs, in a rockery or in a hanging basket.

By: Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden

Steve Hootman from the Rhododendron Species Foundation collected this in China; it forms a dense prostrate evergreen mat of tiny round dark green fleshy leaves which is smothered in masses of white flowers that age golden and are followed by blue berries. Its very different from any other Lonicera we have seen and has a high cute quotient.

By: Arrowhead Alpines

A Steve Hootman collection from China of this quite unique creeping Honeysuckle. This is a Kinnik-Kinnik alternative making a mat of rounding green leaves turning rich purple/red/bronze tones in winter. Honest to Gods small light yellow Honeysuckle flowers. Very cool.

By: Far Reaches Farm

A teensy weensy goundcovering honeysuckle….it’s about time. This Asian, woodland, evergreen rarely grows more than 3” in height, a single plant spreading to about 3' in as many years. Foliage is dense, with small, shiny, rounded leaves, thick and succulent as the crassifolia name implies. A profusion of cream colored flowers with hints of pink appear in late spring to early summer leading to bluish black berries for autumn and beyond. Great small-scale groundcover for the woodland or spiller for container. Likes consistent moisture and shade to half sun. Frost hardy in USDA zone 7.