| Scientific Name: | Diervilla sessilifolia 'Butterfly' |
| Common Name: | dwarf bush honeysuckle |
| Family Name: | Caprifoliaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Thicket-forming shrub; leaves sessile, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 6-8cm long x 3-4cm wide, margins finely serrate; flowers ~13mm wide, 5 pale yellow petals are fused at base, Jul-Sep. | |