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Lonicera hirsuta ~ hairy honeysuckle

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Characteristics:

• FAC

• Michigan C Value: 6

• typcally vine form

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

• leaves are tapered to a sessile or subsessile base, which is generally densely pubescent (Lonicera dioica is glabrous)

• leaves with densely spreading ciliate margins and at least sparsely strigose above

• yellow (sometimes orange to red) flower's corolla tube (and usually branches of inflorescence) glandular pubescent

• leaf pair just below the flower are joined at the base, forming a oval elliptic to round disk around the cluster

• native