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Photographer: Paul Drobot
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Family Caprifoliaceae
Lonicera reticulata Raf.
grape honeysuckle, yellow 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
reticulata: net-veined
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, woody vine |
| Flower: | pale yellow, 5-parted, 3/4"-1 1/4" long, tubular; inflorescence a cluster in the leaf "pocket" at the ends of the branches; blooms May-June |
| Leaf: | uppermost leaf rounded at the tip |
| Habitat: | moist; woods, thickets |
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