Family: Caprifoliaceae,
Honeysuckle
Genus: Lonicera
Description
General: shrub mostly 1-2 m tall.
 Leaves: opposite, short-stalked, elliptic to somewhat
ovate or oblong, sometimes almost heart-shaped at the
base, broadly rounded at the summit, mostly 2-8 cm long
and 1-4 cm wide, or some of them smaller, hairless above,
hairless or often stiff-hairy beneath.
 Flowers: nodding, in pairs from leaf axils on main stalks
5-15 mm long, up to 35 mm in fruit, bearing at the summit
a pair of minute bracts 1-3 mm long. Corolla ochroleucous
or light yellow, 1-2 cm long, the 5 slightly unequal lobes
much shorter than the funnel-shaped tube, which is hairy
within and bears a short, thick spur at the base. Style and
stamens hairless. Ovaries 2-celled, spreading, united at
the base when young, firmly so when mature.
Flowering time: May-July.
 Fruits: berries, almost round, about
1 cm thick or a little
less, bright red, in pairs, and joined at the base, spreading
apart almost opposite each other.
Distribution
Moist, wooded or open slopes at moderate to rather high
elevations in the mountains, in w. and c. parts of MT. Also
from s. B.C. and Alberta to n. CA, WY and UT.
 Edible and Medicinal plant, see below.
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