Photo of Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)
This Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is growing on a roadside in Sherrill Township, Missouri, partly supported by a barbed-wire fence. Japanese honeysuckle, together with other invasive vines, often thrives along roadsides and other edge habitats where management practices remove ground-level herbaceous plants, but a vine rooted in a protected area farther back than the management zone is able to climb structures such as fences, trees, and shrubs, and then overhang the edge.
