honeysuckle
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The honeysuckle produces large amounts of nectar. It has strongly scented flowers, attracting moths in the evening. In Shakespeare's time, the plant was called woodbine.
Vine or shrub found in temperate regions of the world. The common honeysuckle or woodbine (L. periclymenum) of Europe is a climbing plant with sweet-scented flowers, reddish and yellow-tinted outside and creamy white inside; it now grows in the northeastern USA. (Genus Lonicera, family Caprifoliaceae.)
The North American trumpet honeysuckle (L. sempervirens) has unusual vaselike flowers and includes scarlet and yellow varieties.
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