Amur honeysuckle. A nuisance shrub of foreign origin in eastern North America.

kind of an invasive weed due to its bird strew berries..

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Amur+honeysuckle+invasive&t=ffcm&ia=web

there are some nice honeysuckles.. worth space in your garden or yard.. and there is this one.. that is pretty useless as to a pretty fragrant flower and a tame shrub or vine ...

regardless.. dont encourage it ...

ken

Honeysuckle. Very very invasive; taking over the woods here in north Missouri.

btw .. somethings bother me this week.. no clue why ...

why does the sate of kansas end in sass sound...

but the state of arkansas.. ends in a saw sound.. whats that all about..

its almost like some brit changed the pronunciation ... lol ...

but seriously ... i cant even figure out how to use a search engine on this conundrum ...

ken

Here ya go, Ken. Ask and ye shall receive.

"So why do we pronounce them differently? We can thank the French. Arkansas was named for the French plural of a Native American tribe, while Kansas is the English spelling of a similar one. Since the letter "s" at the end of French words is usually silent, we pronounce Bill Clinton's home state "Arkansaw.""

Ken, type "why arkansas pronounciation". That's all you need for pages of explanations.

Nuisance is an understatement. They are a nuisance in my yard, but overall they are an evil, destructive scurge to the environment. Unfortunately we haven't reached the point where we can engineer viruses and diseases to selectively target invasive plants. Maybe we should return to prisoner chain gangs and have them tackle invasives? It's total insanity that many of these plant species are still legal to sell.

Jay, many yrs ago Maryland and other states recommended & even themselves planted Siberian elms as a replacement for American elm.

i knew the brits had to be in there somewhere.. rotflmbo....

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-pronounce-kansas-and-arkansas-differently-2014-2?op=1

from that link: We can thank the French. Arkansas was named for the French plural of a Native American tribe, while Kansas is the English spelling of a similar one.

but i digress.. what the question???....lol...

ken