Lonicera villosa
Blue Fly Honeysuckle
Flower Top
Hudson Bay Regional Park
10-June-2009
The flower is described as yellow in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta. In the specimens pictured here, the flower buds were yellow-green but they turned whitish yellow as they matured.
The key to the species in Flora of Alberta requires corolla 2-lipped; NOT [corolla almost regular]. This feature is hard to distinguish in these specimens.
Villosa: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.
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Lonicera: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.
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Caprifoliaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family.
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