Lonicera involucrata

Family: Caprifoliaceae
Common Name: twinberry honeysuckle
Symbol: LOIN5
Description: Common Name: twinberry honeysuckle Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Shrub General: Deciduous erect shrub, 0.5-3 m (1.6-10 ft) tall; stems glabrous to sparsely pubescent, sometimes glandular; young twigs 4-angled. Leaves: Opposite, simple, elliptic to broadly lance-shaped, 2.5- 16 cm long, green and glabrous above or sometimes hairy along the margins and mid veins, pale and somewhat hairy beneath, margins entire, apex acuminate; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long. Flowers: Borne in pairs on axillary peduncles, the subtending bracts broad and expanding in fruit, 1-1.5 cm long, green or purple; calyx much reduced; corolla funnel-shaped, 5- lobed, 1.2-1.8 cm long, yellow but sometimes purple tinged, glandular-pubescent, basally spurred. Fruits: Berry, round, black at maturity, fleshy, often enclosed by enlarged leaf-like bracts. Ecology: Found along streamsides, in moist forests, thickets from 7,500- 11,000 ft (2286-3353 m), flowers June-July SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.