OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Dipsacales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lonicera dioica   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lonicera dioica   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lonicera dioica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lonicera dioica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-02-006:

Lonicera dioica   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Lonicera dioica var. dioica

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Lonicera dioica var. glaucescens

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lonicera dioica

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lonicera glaucescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Honeysuckle, Mountain Coral Honeysuckle, Limber Honeysuckle


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image of Lonicera dioica, Smooth Honeysuckle, Mountain Coral Honeysuckle, Limber Honeysuckle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lodi2_001_lvd

        

image of Lonicera dioica, Smooth Honeysuckle, Mountain Coral Honeysuckle, Limber Honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm0305s_18

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Leaves variable, usually the last 3 pairs on flowering shoots are connate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lonicera dioica, Smooth Honeysuckle, Mountain Coral Honeysuckle, Limber Honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm0405h_37

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Corolla red, throat often yellow; tube 8-15mm long, lobes about the same, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lonicera dioica, Smooth Honeysuckle, Mountain Coral Honeysuckle, Limber Honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm0405i_21

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Lonicera dioica, Smooth Honeysuckle, Mountain Coral Honeysuckle, Limber Honeysuckle

JK Marlow    jkm0505k_25

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lonicera dioica   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lonicera dioica   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lonicera dioica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lonicera dioica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-02-006:
Lonicera dioica   FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Lonicera dioica var. dioica

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Lonicera dioica var. glaucescens

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lonicera dioica

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lonicera glaucescens

 

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861

Woody vine
Perennial

Habitat: seepages, bogs, rocky woods, shrubby mountain bogs at high elevations, rocky ridgetop thickets over amphibolite, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Red
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (four-lobed upper lip, one-lobed lower lip)
5 stamens
Inferior ovary

Flowers in terminal clusters subtended by connate leaves

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
Berry

 

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