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Caprifoliaceae
Lonicera

Lonicera Linnaeus. Common name: Honeysuckle.

Key to Lonicera

A genus of about 180 species, shrubs and lianas (woody vines), mainly north temperate. See Yang et al. (2023b) for a proposed infrageneric classification. "Using chloroplast and nuclear gene data, we have obtained the phylogenetic hypotheses for the classification of Lonicera. The nuclear and plastome data produced roughly the same results, supporting two subgenera. The sections Isoxylosteum and Coeloxylosteum are supported by the nuclear genome data, but sections Isika and Nintooa are not monophyletic."

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ID notes: As a general rule, our native honeysuckles have stem piths solid (not hollow).

References: Ferguson (1966a); Green (1966); Hofmann & Bittrich (2016) In Kadereit & Bittrich (2016); Rehder (1903); Singhurst, Holmes, & Carr (2021); Yang et al. (2023b). Show full citations.

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image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Lonicera morrowii | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Lonicera canadensis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Lonicera morrowii | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Lonicera japonica | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Lonicera dioica
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Lonicera maackii | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Lonicera canadensis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Lonicera sempervirens | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Lonicera japonica
image of plant© Scott Ward | Lonicera canadensis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Lonicera flava CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Lonicera flava CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Lonicera dioica CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Lonicera sempervirens
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Lonicera flava CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Sonnia Hill | Lonicera albiflora | Original Image ⭷

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