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Lonicera oblongifolia - (image 1 of 6)

Taxonomy

Family: Caprifoliaceae

Habitat

Swamps and fens.

Associates

Distribution

New Brunswick to Manitoba, south to PA, OH, MI, and MN.

Morphology

Deciduous shrub to 2 m; twigs solid; leave oblong to oblanceolate, 3-7 cm, obtuse or acute at both ends, downy on the underside, puberulent above when young; peduncles axillary, 2-4 cm; bracts and bractlets minute or none; ovaries glabrous, partly or wholly connate; corolla yellow, 10-15 mm, hairy, strongly bilabiate, the tube 2.5-5 mm, the upper lip 4-lobed for a fourth of its length; style (and often filaments) hirsute; fruit red or sometimes orange. 

Notes

Flowers May to June

Wetland indicator: FAC

Can be distinguished from introduced shrubby honeysuckles by the oblong leaves and upper lip of the corolla tube which has the lobes fused for more than half of their length.

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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