Lonicera ciliosa

Orange honeysuckle

Family: Caprifoliaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Orange honeysuckle is a native shrub found in northwestern California and the California Ranges in forest and thicket habitats at elevations of 700 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces distinctive orange tubular flowers 16 to 40 millimeters long, arranged in short, dense spikes with up to 20 flowers in 2 to 4 whorls. Growing as a trailing or twining plant with stems 3 to 30 decimeters long, it spreads with a flexible, climbing habit. Its deciduous leaves are oval or ovate, 6 to 10 centimeters long, with ciliate edges and uniquely fused upper leaf pairs that wrap around the stem. The fruit develops as a small red, slightly glaucous berry approximately 8 millimeters long.

Habitat: Forest, thickets

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 700-1700 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR

California counties: Trinity, Humboldt, Mendocino, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Shasta

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.