Honeysuckle

or Woodbine, climbing or bushy shrubs with funnel-shaped, usually two-lipped flowers. In many species opposite leaves are united at their bases so that the stem seems to grow through the middle of the leaf. The honeysuckle of literature, or English woodbine, is a beautiful thicket climber with whorls of creamy, fragrant flowers. Shakespeare speaks of a bank "Quite o'er canopied with luscious woodbine," and Milton in his Lycidas mentions "The musk rose and the well attired woodbine." The American woodbine or trumpet honeysuckle is also a fine, fragrant climber, with white, purple-tubed flowers fully an inch in length. There are at least nine wild honeysuckles in the eastern part of the United States and Canada. There are a hundred species in the northern hemisphere. Columbines should not be called honeysuckles. There is no similarity or relationship.