plants. In addition, plants must grow well in containers to become a successful commercial crop. Three eastern U.S. native deciduous shrubs with ornamental potential for landscape use are american fly honeysuckle, hobblebush, and sweetbells. American fly
native alternatives for the North American horticulture trade seems prudent. Mountain fly honeysuckle [ Lonicera villosa (Michx.) Schult.] is an attractive shrub that may have value as a small native alternative to cultivars of blue honeysuckle
representatives differed sufficiently from their Eurasian congeners and from one another to elevate them to two distinct species, Lonicera villosa (mountain fly honeysuckle) in north-central and eastern North America, and Lonicera cauriana Fernald (blue fly
trade #1 containers under 0%, 40%, or 70% shade for sweetbells, hobblebush, and american fly honeysuckle. Of the three species, sweetbells may be the easiest for growers to adopt, because it rooted at 88% success without the use of exogenous auxin and
honeysuckle ( Lonicera villosa ) produced greater root dry weights and root system volumes in 100% perlite than in substrates with less perlite ( Hayes and Peterson, 2019 ). It is unclear why mountain fly honeysuckle and the three species we investigated in
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