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Lonicera canadensis ~ Canadian fly honeysuckle

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Characteristics:

• FACU (but commonly found in cedar swamps)

• Michigan C Value: 5

• shrub form

• in many northern forest types; often in mixed cedar swamps

• leaf edges are toothless but fringed in fine hairs (ciliate)

• upper leaf surface is hairless, lower surface is paler than the upper and may be sparsely hairy

• twigs are green to purplish, hairless, and solid with a white pith

• older bark is brown to gray and often peeling in strips

• branches can be straggling and may root where they touch the ground, forming clonal plants

• flowers are pale yellow

• two somewhat conic cylindric berries often diverge in opposite directions at the summit of the peduncle

• native