Lonicera involucrata var. involucrata
Black Twinberry

Family: Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Fish Hatchery, riparian wooded area near stream (3 to 7 meters away)

Flowers:

flowers paired in axillary peduncles; bracts subtending the peduncles enlarged and conspicuous both in flower and in fruit; corolla irregular, yellow, 12 to 18 mm, hairy

Leaves:

opposite; petiole 2 to 10 mm; blade elliptic to ovate

Plant:

shrub; 0.6 to 3 meters tall. Berries considered poisonous by the Thompson and Okanagan-Colville. A poultice of boiled leaves was also applied to swellings, and a decoction of the stems and leaves were used for scabs, sores and broken bones by the Thompson.

Habitat:

moist places in the mountains

Distribution of species:

Alaska to Mexico and east to eastern North America

Distribution of genus:

more or less 200 species: temperate and subtropical North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa