Lonicera hispidula(Lindl.) Douglas ex Torr. & A.Gray

Pink Honeysuckle

WFO wfo-0001290711 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Michael Warner
fig. a Michael Warner, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205796765
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. b Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203983597
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. c Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204709205
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. d Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204420543
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Dominic Gentilcore
fig. e Dominic Gentilcore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202365406
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by P Holroyd
fig. f P Holroyd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202005100
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Michael Warner
fig. g Michael Warner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201915231
Lonicera hispidula, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. h Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201779410

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,180 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 2,180 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Caprifolium californicum (Torr. & A.Gray) Howell
  • Caprifolium hispidulum var. californicum (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene
  • Caprifolium subspicatum (Hook. & Arn.) Greene
  • Lonicera californica Torr. & A.Gray
  • Lonicera chaetocarpa (Batalin ex Rehder) Rehder
  • Lonicera hispidula var. douglasii A.Gray

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.