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Lonicera tatarica (Tatarian honeysuckle), a shrub of Eurasian origin that has escaped cultivation and has increasingly become invasive in northern Utah. Honeysuckles can have very fragrant flowers but I don't recall noticing any fragrance in connection with this large shrub that was in full flower.Note the flower buds arising in sessile pairs, and, the distinct, narrow bracts below. The entire leaves are lanceolate to oblong.April 28, 2012, Popperton Park, Salt Lake City, Utah, elevation 4,950 ft.
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Lonicera tatarica (Tatarian honeysuckle), a shrub of Eurasian origin that has escaped cultivation and has increasingly become invasive in northern Utah. In fact, Welsh (first in 2003, A Utah Flora, 3rd ed.) reports that in Utah's Summit County (due east of Salt Lake County), there are aspen slopes where this shrub is the principal understory plant and has been growing in that area since at least the 1920's; yet as here, we are also seeing this occur more and more commonly in dry, foothill habitats. So it appears this is yet another cultivated ornamental gone very wrong.April 28, 2012, Popperton Park, Salt Lake City, Utah, elevation 4,950 ft.The yellow flowering plant at the far right/background is an even more vicious and noxious weed, Dyer's woad, Isatis tinctoria. In front of the honeysuckle is a native shrub, Rabbitbrush, which is seemingly being slowly swallowed by the honeysuckle.
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Newark, New York, United States
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Forstbotanisk Have, Århus
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Forstbotanisk Have, Århus
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Forstbotanisk Have, Århus
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Forstbotanisk Have, Århus
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Ohio State Weed Lab Archive, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org
EOL staff
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Forstbotanisk Have, Århus
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Chris Evans, Illinois Wildlife Action Plan, Bugwood.org
EOL staff
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