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: 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 to lance-shape, 6-18cm long, margins finely serrate; flowers yellow in summer.