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CAPRIFOLIACEAE
HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY

 

1 Flowers 5−6 mm long; corolla regularly 5-lobed and radially symmetric; berries white .. Symphoricarpos mollis   [pics]

1' Flowers 12−18 mm long; corolla strongly 2-lipped and bilaterally symmetric; berries cherry red to yellow-orange or deep purple .. Lonicera

 

Lonicera L.
HONEYSUCKLE

 

1 Twining woody climber; leaves at certain nodes with blades fused across node (perfoliate) and other nodes with a pair of leaflike outgrowths formed on node; petioles glabrous; flowers 6 per node .. Lonicera hispidula

1' Shrub often somewhat scandent but not twining; leaves never perfoliate or with leaflike outgrowths on node; petioles conspicuously short-hairy; flowers 2 per node .. Lonicera subspicata var. denudata   [pics]





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A Naturalist's Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, California


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Barry A. Prigge and Arthur C. Gibson
2013



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