Tatarian honeysuckle

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Tatarian honeysuckle

Tatarian honeysuckle habit

Tatarian honeysuckle

Tatarian honeysuckle leaves

Tatarian honeysuckle fruit

Tatarian honeysuckle

Tatarian honeysuckle flowers

Tatarian honeysuckle stem

Tatarian honeysuckle flowers

Tatarian honeysuckle flowers

Tatarian honeysuckle

Tatarian honeysuckle fruit

Morphology

Trunk

Stems erect; branches unarmed; bark grayish brown, cracking in long plates or strips, sometimes exfoliating; wood yellowish brown to tan, hard.

Twigs

Tan to brown to greenish brown, flexible, smooth, glabrous; leaf scars triangular; pith tan; buds brown, ovoid to globose, .07 to .08 inch, apex acute to obtuse, scales minutely ciliate.

Leaves

Deciduous, opposite, simple; petiole .12 to .2 inch, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; blade ovate to oblong, 1 to 1.8 inch, base rounded to wedge-shaped, margins entire to obscurely wavy, apex obtuse to acute, lower surfaces light green, slightly glaucous, glabrous, upper surfaces green, not glaucous, glabrous.

Flowers

Inflorescences small, few-flowered cymes, axillary on new growth, 2 per node, each 2-flowered; peduncle .6 to 1 inch; pedicels absent. Flowers bisexual, bilaterally symmetric; hypanthium ovoid, .06 to .08 inch; sepals 5, connate; petals 5, connate, corolla pink or white tinged pink, 2-lipped, glabrous, tube gibbous at base, .28 to .3 inch, pubescent internally, abaxial lip 1-lobed, adaxial lip 4-lobed, lobes .35 to .5 inch long, .07 to .16 inch wide; stamens 5, exserted; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-3-locular; style .28 to .43 inch, pubescent; stigma capitate.

Fruit

July-October; berries, reddish orange, globose, .2 to .28 inch diam., smooth, glabrous; seeds 3-6, yellow, ovoid, compressed, .1 to .12 inch long, .08 to .1 inch wide, granulate, longitudinally 1-ridged.

Ecology

Habitat

Woodlands and forests, thickets, urban woodlots, roadsides.

Distribution

East 1/2 of Kansas

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