North Carolina Wildflowers

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Caprifoliaceae
	Limber Honeysuckle, Twining Honeysuckle, Mountain Honeysuckle, Wild Honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica) Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006 Rare at high elevations in the mountains in NC.
	Limber Honeysuckle, Twining Honeysuckle, Mountain Honeysuckle, Wild Honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica) Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006 A good example of the importance of scientific names, this species goes by many common names, some of which overlap with other species.
	Limber Honeysuckle, Twining Honeysuckle, Mountain Honeysuckle, Wild Honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica) Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006 Young fruit

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.