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Lonicera hispidula

California Honeysuckle.

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This photo appears as three intersecting flowering stems of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, in the mixed evergreen forest of the central coast ranges of California. - grid24_24
This photo appears as three intersecting flowering stems of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, in the mixed evergreen forest of the central coast ranges of California. - grid24_24
Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, has fragrant, muted pastel pink flowers and crawls up on other plants. - grid24_24
Here is a lucky photo of the leaves, flowers, and buds of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, in the Santa Margarita, California, garden. - grid24_24
This beautiful vignette is very hard to duplicate in a garden, of a textured groundcover of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, mixed with Rubus ursinus, beneath a spreading Quercus agrifolia.  - grid24_24
Here is an older photo of the flowers of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, with the bright yellow contrasting stamens.   - grid24_24
Here is another photo of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, in the California mixed evergreen forest, but with its clusters of red fruits. - grid24_24
The clustered fruits of Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle, are transluscent red, but taste very sour and bitter.  - grid24_24
Lonicera hispidula, Chaparral Honeysuckle, is native in coastal California, seen here  ten feet up in a bush. - grid24_24
Lonicera hispidula California Honeysuckle. play movie
A climbing deciduous shrub with large pink flowers. Native throughout much of California and up into Washington. California honeysuckle can handle full sun to shade. It's drought tolerant. Use as a bank filler or groundcover. It has an edible berry but bitter. It seems to be deer proof. Hummingbird flower. It is hardy to about -10 to -15 degrees F. Its red berries are relished by the birds. Flowers yellowish at base, pinkish, in upper portion, grows in oak woodland, good in clay soil, with Symphoricarpos mollis, Salvia spathacea, Rhamnus ilicifolia, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Quercus agrifolia (dominant), Honeysuckles? Click here for more.

Lonicera hispidula tolerates clay and seasonal flooding.
Lonicera hispidula is great for a bird garden.
Foliage of Lonicera hispidula is deciduous.
Flower of Lonicera hispidula has color pink.
Fruit of Lonicera hispidula is edible.

Communities for Lonicera hispidula:Coastal Sage Scrub, Douglas Fir Forest, Mixed-evergreen Forest, Redwood Forest and Southern Oak Woodland.

ph: 5.00 to 7.00
usda: 6 to 10
height[m]: 1.00 to 6.00
width[m]: 0.10 to 0.30
rainfall[cm]: 74.00 to 459.00

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