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Lonicera canadensis ~ Canadian fly honeysuckle

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Lonicera-canadensis-~-Canadian-fly-honeysuckle


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



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