Lonicera hispidula - California honeysuckle

California honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) is a deciduous climbing shrub native to California and Washington, crawling up neighboring plants and bearing fragrant pink flowers and red berries that are edible but very sour and bitter. It grows 1-6 m tall and 0.1-0.3 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Lonicera spp. - Honeysuckle
• Shrub
• Vine
• Deciduous

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Ground cover¹
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-6
Diameter (m)	0.1-0.3

Footnotes

1. Lonicera hispidula, California Honeysuckle | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 45 seconds ↩