Honeysuckle vines of three types can be found on any of the 16 Gardens Kiosks. The most common is the Orange Honeysuckle, but the Gardens are also growing the Pink and the Purple-flower. PLC’s sponsored WWU’s SAM Project’s extinction probability is slight for the Orange and the Pink, <.0001%; but PLC’s probability of the Purple-flower disappearing is projected at a .31 extinction slope. It, like ~300 of Cascadia’s 908 native species, appears on its way to disappearing from the Northwest’s GMO monoculture forests, 150 species are already gone – not yet found by WWU summer students in several summers of searching … and not recently photographed … with Fourth Corner Nurseries, having “only” 500 species
under propagation also attesting. When Hitchcock and Cronquist’s one-volume, 936-page, Flora of the Pacific Northwest reference was revised in 2018, plant photos were not used. Artists’ drawings drafted from dried herbaria specimens were included, reminding one of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Emperor’s New Clothes.” Mountains one sees in western Washington are commercial tree farms, most “owned by the people,” with honeysuckles eliminated with herbicides to increase lumber production. Don’t look for honeysuckles on recently sprayed State (owned by “the people”) DNR lands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_ciliosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_hispidula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_conjugialis
https://nativeplantspnw.com/2017/01/
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Lonicera%20involucrata
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-08.pdf
https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/1695/bws/bartenders-guide-to-foraging-honeysuckle
The most common Pacific Northwest honeysuckle is:
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