Page authors: Don Knoke, David Giblin
Lonicera etrusca
Etruscan honeysuckle
Specimens
Photos

Distribution: Occasional west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to Oregon.

Habitat: Thickets, forest edge, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Introduced from the Mediterranean region

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, hummingbirds

Description:
General:

Twining vines, sometimes climbing to 6 m., with hollow twigs.

Leaves:

Leaves opposite, pubescent, weakly glaucous and short-hairy beneath, sub-sessile, broadly elliptic, 4-10 cm. long and 2-5.5 cm. wide; occasionally one or more of the pairs at the end of each twig grown together at the base.

Flowers:

Flowers in a dense, short, terminal inflorescence; corolla pale yellowish, tinged with purple, glabrous within, 3-5 cm. long, strongly bilabiate, the lips nearly equaling the tube; stamens 5, glabrous, the filaments attached nearly at the orifice of the corolla; ovary 3-celled, inferior.

Fruits:

Fruit a red berry nearly 1 cm. thick.

Accepted Name:
Lonicera etrusca Santi
Publication: Viaggio al Montamiata...Pisa 113, pl. 1. 1795.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
(none provided)
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Lonicera etrusca in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Lonicera etrusca checklist entry

OregonFlora: Lonicera etrusca information

E-Flora BC: Lonicera etrusca atlas page

CalPhotos: Lonicera etrusca photos

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