Lonicera villosa (Blue Fly Honeysuckle) - photos and description
Ovaries
completely fused together for the 2 flowers
Flowers with 2 filiform bracts 6-8 mm long
Origin: Native.
General: Erect, short shrubs found in mossy wetlands and woods. Fruit is a tasty blue berry about 1 cm diameter.
Flowers: Pairs of pale yellow flowers in leaf axils, we measured flowers to 12 mm long. Flowers with a pair of filiform bracts, which we measured to 6 mm long. The ovary for the flowers completely fused together.
Leaves: Leaves oblong, entire, opposite, with very short stalks, growing at stem tips. We measured a leaf at 25 mm long and 8 mm wide. Leaves with short hairs on top, bottom and margins of leaves.
Height: Height listed in Budd's Flora to 100 cm, we measured plants to 42 cm tall.
Habitat: Moist and swampy places in woodlands.
Abundance: Listed as common by Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan.
Synonym: Listed in some of the field guides we use as Lonicera caerulea var. villosa.
When and where photographed: Photos taken June 14th, mossy, wet woods, boreal forest, about 400 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.