Diervilla

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Noun

Diervilla - small genus of low deciduous shrubs: bush honeysucklesgenus Diervillaasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsCaprifoliaceae, family Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family - shrubs and small trees and woody vinesDiervilla lonicera, bush honeysuckle - spreading bush of northeastern United States having small clusters of fragrant green and yellow flowersDiervilla sessilifolia, bush honeysuckle - bush honeysuckle of southeastern United States having large crowded clusters of sulfur-yellow flowers

Diervilla

a genus of deciduous shrubs of the family Caprifoliaceae, closely related to the genus Weigela. The leaves are opposite, simple, and serrate. The flowers are bisexual, irregular, and large, with yellow or greenish-yellow bilabiate corollas, in groups of three to seven at the tips of young axillary or apical branchlets. The fruit is a bilocular pod. There are three species in North America. In the USSR Dier-villa lonicera and D. sessilifolia are sometimes grown as ornamentals.

REFERENCE

Derev’ia i kustarniki SSSR, vol. 6. Moscow-Leningrad, 1962.

Diervilla

Related to Diervilla: Diervilla sessilifolia, Diervilla lonicera, bush honeysuckle

noun

Synonyms for Diervilla

noun small genus of low deciduous shrubs: bush honeysuckles

Synonyms

genus Diervilla

Related Words

asterid dicot genus
Caprifoliaceae
family Caprifoliaceae
honeysuckle family
Diervilla lonicera
bush honeysuckle
Diervilla sessilifolia