A N F Keys
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
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]
The text of the above keys used with permission from
A Naturalist's Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, California
© Copyright
Barry A. Prigge and Arthur C. Gibson
2013