Bracted Honeysuckle
Lonicera involucrata
Hosts 3 caterpillarsBird foodPollinator plant
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Growing it
| When | Flowers June to July; fruits July to August |
|---|---|
| Type | shrub |
| Sun | Full sun, partial shade |
| Water | Medium, high |
| Soil | pH 5.5–7.5 |
| Hardiness | zone 3–8 |
| Mature height | 2 m |
| Mature spread | 2.25 m |
| Spacing | 1.5 m |
| Years to maturity | 3 |
| Bloom | Jun–Jul |
| Flower colour | Yellow read from a published flora |
| In bloom | June July |
| Fruit | Jul–Aug |
| Native to | AB, SK |
egg-shaped leaves about 10 cm long in opposite pairs; several stems from the base
Where it has been recorded
Which ecoregions the records fall in
- Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 454 records, high confidence
- Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 359 records, high confidence
- Northern Continental Divide south AB: 357 records, high confidence
- Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 172 records, high confidence
- Western Alberta Upland central AB: 107 records, high confidence
- Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 99 records, high confidence
- Peace Lowland north AB: 47 records, high confidence
- Western Boreal central AB: 19 records, medium confidence
- Wabasca Lowland north AB: 3 records, low confidence
These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.
See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.
Documented animals
24 documented relationships.
pollen for
- A Flower Fly Guzman et al. 2022
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Guzman et al. 2022
- Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Guzman et al. 2022
- Lasioglossum knereri Guzman et al. 2022
- Lasioglossum laevissimum Guzman et al. 2022
- Lasioglossum pacatum Guzman et al. 2022
- Lasioglossum punctatoventre Guzman et al. 2022
- Rufous Hummingbird Guzman et al. 2022
- Syrphus opinator Guzman et al. 2022
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Guzman et al. 2022
nectar for
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Half-black Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Rufous Hummingbird Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Two-ranked Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Yellow Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
caterpillar host for
- Gnophaela clappiana Specimen records from mycoportal.org
- Hummingbird Clearwing Moth Pohl et al. 2018
- Snowberry Clearwing Pohl et al. 2018
fruit for
- Cedar Waxwing Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Also worth knowing
Safety
Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety
Buying it
About $25–$50 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (shrub default); AB retail as of 2026
Where these numbers came from
- Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate