Lonicera hispidula

Pink honeysuckle

Family: Caprifoliaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Pink honeysuckle is a California native shrub found in northwestern, Sierra Nevada, central western, and southwestern California in canyons, streamsides, and woodland at elevations below 1,100 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces pink flowers with a strongly two-lipped corolla 12 to 16 millimeters long, glandular-hairy with a shallowly four-lobed upper lip. Growing 1.8 to 6 meters tall, it develops a sprawling to twining habit with puberulent herbage and distinctive growth pattern. Its leaves are 4 to 8 centimeters long, with oblong to ovate blades that have a truncate or slightly heart-shaped base, with upper leaf pairs fused around the stem and accompanied by green or scale-like stipules. The fruit is approximately 8 millimeters long and turns bright red when mature.

Habitat: Canyons, streamsides, woodland

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: NW, SN, CW, SW

California counties: Humboldt, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Lake, Butte, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, El Dorado, Marin, Amador, Contra Costa, Kern, Mariposa, Plumas, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Tulare, Alameda, Del Norte, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Yuba, Santa Barbara, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Trinity, Solano, Tehama, Sutter, Calaveras, Placer, San Bernardino

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