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tiny, bump- or scale-like or lacking; twin 

 berries dark red to nearly black, joined to near 

 tips. 



purpleflower honeysuckle (Lonicera con- 



jugialis). 

 18. Bud-scale bracts not as above, not long-per- 

 sistent; leaves thin; flowers yellowish. 

 19. Branches spreading; bark gray; basal bud- 

 scale bracts spreading at tips, thin-papery, 

 purplish-tinged, pale-veiny; leaves net-veined, 

 rounded at both ends or somewhat heart- 

 shaped at base, egg-shaped, oval, or elliptic; 

 flower stalks (peduncles) % inch long; 2 outer 

 flower bracts small, like bud-scale bracts, 

 not persistent; 4 inner bractlets tiny or 

 wanting; twin berries joined at base, wide- 

 spreading at tips, bright red. 



Utah honeysuckle (Lonicera utahensis). 

 19. Branches ascending; bark dark reddish 

 brown; lower basal bud -scale bracts recurved, 

 upper leaflike; leaves oblong or narrowly 

 reverse-lance-shaped ; leafstalks breaking off 

 near base, their stumps hiding leaf scars; 

 flower stalks (peduncles) % inch long; 2 outer 

 flower bracts awl-shaped, hairy; 4 inner 

 bractlets united into a red fleshy sac enclos- 

 ing twin berries, thus appearing as a single 

 red berry (drying bluish-black) ; subalpine 

 meadows s. from Mt. Adams along Cascades, 

 lower sites, e. side. 



red mountain-fly honeysuckle (Lonicera 



cauriana) . 



j (Twin berries enveloped in 



S^] fleshy, joined, inner 4 

 bractlets,- the 2 awl- 

 shaped outer flower 

 bracts 



Basal bud-scale bracts 

 (enlarged) 



Red mountain-fly honeysuckle Purple-flower honeysuckle 



fhm K-494068 



Utah honeysuckle 



