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Shrub
Perennial

Non-native: China

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare, but locally abundant & invasive in c. NC (Uwharrie National Forest)

Look for it in forests, woodlands, old home sites, per Weakley's Flora

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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

LEAVES:
Tardily deciduous
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Creamy white
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
Flowers in peduncled pairs in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Spring
Red
Berry

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Read more about Standish's Honeysuckle at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Dipsacales

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lonicera standishii FAMILY Caprifoliaceae

COMMON NAME:
Standish's Honeysuckle

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John M. Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Bugwood.org bug_5392301

Month Unknown

Branches retrorsely hispid with reddish-brown hairs, per Weakley's Flora (2012).