Trumpet honeysuckle

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Trumpet honeysuckle

Trumpet honeysuckle habit

Trumpet honeysuckle perfoliate leaves

Trumpet honeysuckle flowers

Trumpet honeysuckle leaves

Trumpet honeysuckle

Trumpet honeysuckle inflorescence

Morphology

Stem

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.

Inflorescence

Terminal, 1 to 4 6-flowered clusters.

Flower

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.

Fruit

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

Ecology

Habitat

Mine spoils, thickets, woodlands, old homesteads

Distribution

Southeast corner of Kansas

Additional Notes