Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Steven Bodzin — fig. a Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202332858

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Ryan Sorrells — fig. b Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203400846

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Michael and Antoni Hinczewski — fig. c Michael and Antoni Hinczewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201928315

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Violet T. — fig. d Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201094294

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Susan Berry — fig. e Susan Berry, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204203751

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Tom Field — fig. f Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202587211

Lonicera maackii, photographed by Dave Behm — fig. g Dave Behm, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201278960

Lonicera maackii, photographed by David Bartholow — fig. h David Bartholow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202793981

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Lonicera morrowiithis one called it 5x compare

Flowering n = 3,644 observations

303

1201

1404

294

107

197

Flowering observations of Lonicera maackii by month
Month	Observations
Jan	2
Feb	13
Mar	303
Apr	1201
May	1404
Jun	294
Jul	107
Aug	197
Sep	60
Oct	39
Nov	23
Dec	1

Peak flowering in May, from 3,644 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Caprifolium maackii Kuntze
Lonicera maackii f. erubescens Rehder
Lonicera maackii f. podocarpa Franch. ex Rehder
Lonicera maackii var. maackii
Xylosteon maackii Rupr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.