Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle
- flowers – white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
- fruit – bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
- no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
- short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
- understory, especially in moist forests
Also known as: red twinberry, fly honeysuckle
See also: Lonicera involucrata /twinberry honeysuckle
Utah honeysuckle is a deciduous shrub, usually about 3 feet tall, but it can be up to 7-ish feet. It is usually found in the understory of forests – most places in moist places
The flowers of this species are nodding (i.e. hanging down), in pairs. Their color is white or cream, and they are bell shaped with the petals flaring out a bit at the ends.
Like other honeysuckles, the leaves are opposite, oval to oblong. In this case, however, they are mostly not hairy, except perhaps some stiff hairs underneath.
The Utah honeysuckle fruit is a bright red (more so than twinberry) berry. They come in pairs (from two ovaries in the same flower), and are fused at the base. Unlike twinberry, neither the flower nor the fruit have significant or noticeable bracts.
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