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Photographer: Christopher Noll
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Family Caprifoliaceae
Diervilla lonicera Mill.
northern bush-honeysuckle
Diervilla: for N. Dierville, 17th century French surgeon
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
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect to arching, perennial, 6"-36" tall shrub with round stems |
| Flower: | yellow to reddish, 5-parted, 1/2"-3/4" long, funnel-shaped, almost regular, inside hairy, 5 stamens barely longer than the petals; inflorescence a 3-7-flowered, compound-branched cluster (cyme); blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | capsule |
| Leaf: | mostly oblong with a pointed tip, finely toothed, opposite |
| Habitat: | dry; woods, forests, cliffs; in rocky soil |
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