Can anyone ID this plant, and is it worth anything to the bees?

[joker1656]

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/3172/dscf5779.jpg

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/8208/dscf5780.jpg

We have this plant throughout our woods and fencerows.  What is it, and should I leave it for the bees.  It is a woody type stem/trunk (some of them get 3 inches accross), and grows everywhere.  Thanks!

[Kathyp]

looks like a honeysuckle to me.

[Two Bees]

I don't believe it's honeysuckle.  Honeysuckle around here is a vining plant that will climb anything.  The blossom of the plant pictured looks a lot like a HS but the variety that I've seen usually has larger, more yellow blossoms.

[Finski]

Some Locicera/honeysuckle 
This is realitive species.
http://biology.missouristate.edu/Herbarium/Plants%20of%20the%20Interior%20Highlands/Flowers/Lonicera%20morrowi.jpg

[Finski]

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Honey suckle is very atractive to bees. Species are many in gardens even here.

But do you know Rhamnus species. We have here only one species Rhamnus frangula. It blooms several months and it is a good honey plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckthorn

[joker1656]

Wow!  It does resemble the leaves and blossoms that Finski put up.  I will say that it is a shrubby tree not a vine.  A large one has grown right in the middle of a huge lilac that we have.  Maybe I can get a picture of the whole plant/tree soon.  The pic I posted was of a small limb.  Thanks! 

[Scadsobees]

http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/trees/loja.html


I'd guess honeysuckle as well. I have a shrub that I think is some variety of honeysuckle as well but I don't think the bees can even get the nectar out of the long flower stems, and I never see bees on it.

Rick

[fermentedhiker]

I'm with Scadsobees.  Looks like the honeysuckle bushes we have here.  The Bumbles love it but I don't think honeybees have a long enough tongue to make use of it.

[doak]

I have one similar that blooms early, before most anything else. It is more bushy type than the running kind.
The bees cover it up. There are several species of "Honey Suckle". Yes , I would say it is one of the species. :)doak

[gardeningfireman]

It is a honeysuckle. I have one in my yard. It is a large shrub. I have never seen a bee on it. Dept. of Ag. condemns it as invasive.

[wildbeekeeper]

tatarian honeysuckle...its an invasive plant not sure i have seen honeybees on it but it smells pretty :)

[doak]

gardeningfireman, if it is a large shrub and not the running kind, I think you may have a wild Azalea. Yes, the honey bees don't work these. :)doak