Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses - Trumpet honeysuckle

TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE

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Lonicera sempervirens L.

Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri

Perennial

Height: Vines, 3-20 feet

Family: Caprifoliaceae - Honeysuckle Family

Flowering Period: April, May, June, July

Also Called:

Coral honeysuckle.

Stems:

Stems twining or clambering, twigs glabrous.

Leaves:

Blades elliptic to oblong, oblanceolate or ovate, 1.2 to 3.2 inches long, .6 to 2 inches wide, base truncate or tapered, apex obtuse to acute; distal 1-2 pairs perfoliate, 1-3 times as long as wide, pair broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic in outline, apex rounded to acute, margins entire, lower surface conspicuously glaucous, glabrous.

Inflorescences:

Terminal, 1 to 4 6-flowered clusters.

Flowers:

Calyx lobes less than .02 inch, oblong to triangular; corollas weakly 2-lipped, deep red to orangish red, 1.4 to 2 inches long, tube gibbous basally, lobes 1/5 to 1/6 as long as tube, spreading to ascending, lower lip 1-lobed, upper lip 4-lobed; stamens 5, exserted; stigma capitate, exserted.

Fruits:

Berries orangish red to red, .2 to .4 inch.

Habitat:

Mine spoils, thickets, woodlands, old homesteads

Distribution:

Southeast corner of Kansas

Origin:

Introduced

Comments:

Lonicera, for German herbalist Adam Lonitzer and sempervirens, evergreen.

Trumpet honeysuckle inflorescence