TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE
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Lonicera sempervirens  L.
Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri
Perennial
Height: Vines, 3-20 feet
Family: Caprifoliaceae - Honeysuckle Family
Flowering Period:   April, May, June, July
Also Called: Coral honeysuckle.
Stems: Stems twining or clambering, twigs glabrous.
Leaves: Blades elliptic to oblong, oblanceolate or ovate, 1.2 to 3.2 inches long, .6 to 2 inches wide, base truncate or tapered, apex obtuse to acute; distal 1-2 pairs perfoliate, 1-3 times as long as wide, pair broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic in outline, apex rounded to acute, margins entire, lower surface conspicuously glaucous, glabrous.
Inflorescences: Terminal, 1 to 4 6-flowered clusters.
Flowers: Calyx lobes less than .02 inch, oblong to triangular; corollas weakly 2-lipped, deep red to orangish red, 1.4 to 2 inches long, tube gibbous basally, lobes 1/5 to 1/6 as long as tube, spreading to ascending, lower lip 1-lobed, upper lip 4-lobed; stamens 5, exserted; stigma capitate, exserted.
Fruits: Berries orangish red to red, .2 to .4 inch.
Habitat: Mine spoils, thickets, woodlands, old homesteads
Distribution: Southeast corner of Kansas
Origin: Introduced
Comments: Lonicera, for German herbalist Adam Lonitzer and sempervirens, evergreen.

Trumpet honeysuckle inflorescence
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Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri
Trumpet honeysuckle flowers
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Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri
Trumpet honeysuckle
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Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri
Trumpet honeysuckle habit
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Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri
Trumpet honeysuckle perfoliate leaves
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Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri
Trumpet honeysuckle leaves
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Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri