American Fly Honeysuckle

Lonicera canadensis

Honeysuckle Family - Caprifoliaceae

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A deciduous shrub 3 to 4 feet tall with a somewhat straggling, sparsely branching growth pattern and green to purplish branchlets.

Flowers in pairs on long stalks and pale yellow to yellowish green. Flowers tubular ending in 5 short lobes, each about ˝ to ž inches long. Fruit as two fused red berries on a long stalk. Short stalked leaves are paired, egg-shaped to oblong with entire margins that are fringed with hairs.

Photographed - May & June at Eagle Lake