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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Caprifoliaceae
Lonicera dioica L.
limber honeysuckle, mountain honeysuckle, red honeysuckle
Lonicera: named for Adam Lonitzer (1528-1586), a German herbalist, physician and botanist who wrote a standard herbal text that was reprinted many times between 1557 and 1783
dioica: Greek for "two houses"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | climbing shrub with a smooth stem |
| Flower: | yellow, orange or purple, 5-parted, 1/2"-1" long, tubular; inflorescence a cluster in the leaf "pocket" at the ends of the branches; blooms May-June |
| Leaf: | uppermost leaf pointed at the tip |
| Habitat: | moist; woods, thickets |
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