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Lonicera dioica var. glaucescens

Botanic Family

Caprifoliaceae

Author

(Rydberg) Butters

Common Names

• Red honeysuckle

Geographical Habitats

• Alberta
• British Colombia
• Manitoba
• Ontario
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon - Canada
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• South Dakota
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming - USA

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• shrubland
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Spring-Summer May-Jun

Fruiting Times

Deciduous more or less twining shrub with pubescent branches & shedding bark. Pubescent thickish leaves or glabrous above & hairy beneath to 120mm long, upper 2 leaves connate. Terminal spikes of flowers with connate bracts , fragrant 20mm pale yellow flowers red inside, yellow corolla maturing reddish to 25mm long pubescent inside & puberulent outside, 2-lipped tube pubescent within. Fruit pale red berry

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• The Plant List 2
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• FRM
• Gleason & Moldenke