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The Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is a twining vine with sweetly scented bell-shaped flowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, ands.

Japanese Honeysuckle is considered an invasive exoticPatterson's Curse infest the Warrumbungle National Park in New South Wales''. A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i. is not native), become weed in the United States, and is classified as a noxious weed by the state of IllinoisIllinois is a state in the United States named after the Illiniwek Indian tribe, which used to live there. The capital of Illinois is Springfield and the U. postal abbreviation for the state is IL . Illinois is pronounced ill-len-NOY, or jokingly, ill-len. It has done severe damage to eastern American woodlands, often forming vast clonal colonies on forest floors that displace virtually all native ground plants, and climbing into trees and shrubs and severely weakening and even killing them by cutting off sap flow and shading their leaves.

Nonetheless, this species is still sold by American nurseries, often under the name Hall's honeysuckle, which is a cultivar of the species. It is an effective groundcover, and does have pleasant, strong-smelling flowers, but the damage it does tremendously outweighs any positive qualities. The only invasive exotics that compete with this plant for total damage done in the eastern United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in are kudzuKudzu Pueraria lobata (syn. montana, P. thunbergiana , is one of about 20 species in the genus Pueraria in the pea family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is native to southern Japan and southeast China in eastern Asia. The name comes from Japanese kuzu and multiflora rose.

Honeysuckle can be controlled by cutting, flaming, or burning the plant to root level and repeating on two week increments until nutrient reserves in the roots are depleted. Honeysuckle can also be controlled through annual applications of glyphosateGlyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine, CHNOP) is used as a non-selective herbicide to kill weeds, especially perennials. It kills plants by inhibiting their ability to make aromatic amino acids, which is an interesting target since only plants and micro, or through grubbing if high labor and soil destruction are not of concern.