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Lonicera hirsuta - (image 1 of 5)

Taxonomy

Family: Caprifoliaceae

Habitat

Moist woods.

Associates

Distribution

Western New England, NY, and PA to southern Ontario, MN, and Manitoba.

Morphology

Deciduous twining shrub; stems hairy and glandular when young; leaves dull green, sessile or short-petiolate, broadly oval to rhombic-ovate, 6-12 cm, hairy on both sides, the upper 1 or 2 pairs acuminate, connate into a rhombic-elliptic to subrotund disk; spikes with 1-4 crowded whorls of flowers; corollas yellow to orange, the tube pubescent and slightly gibbous. 

Notes

Flowers June to July

Wetland indicator: FAC

An attractive species when in bloom.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY.

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