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Southern honeysuckle

Lonicera subspicata

Also called White Chaparral Honeysuckle

Southern honeysuckle
Photo: Stickpen, Public domain
Family
Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
SW. California to NW. Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Lonicera subspicata is a species of honeysuckle known by the common name southern honeysuckle. It is native to Baja California, California, and northern Baja California Sur, where it is known from several areas in mountain and coastal habitat, particularly chaparral. It is a vining shrub which usually climbs on other plants for support.

How to grow it

For variety denudata, the fruit is reportedly edible. In cultivation, the plant makes a drought-tolerant vining shrub that is good cover for a low fence or the north side of a house. It will climb with support. It is cold hardy to 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

Where it grows

This shrub occurs from the San Francisco Bay Area and the northern Sierra Nevada south through the Coast Ranges, into the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges that extend through Baja California. It reaches its southern distribution at the Tres Vírgenes in Baja California Sur. It is also found on Cedros Island.

Other Lonicera plants

Fragrant Grove Honeysuckle · Western white honeysuckle · Alpine honeysuckle · Arizona honeysuckle · Sweetberry honeysuckle · American fly honeysuckle · Italian woodbine · Lonicera cerviculata · Orange Honeysuckle · Purpleflower honeysuckle · Limber honeysuckle · Etruscan honeysuckle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lonicera subspicata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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