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Yellow honeysuckle Leaves pale to dark green above, bluish green beneath. The uppermost pairs connate at the base into a suborbicular or oval disk and usually mucronulate at tips. The flowers, occurs in whorls of 1 or 3 at the end of the shoots, are pure yellow againg to orange-yellow. The fruits are orange-reddish. Nativer in North America: southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, Tennesee, east to North Carolina, usually on or near limestone outcrops, rocky soils in woods, slopes, bluffs, ledges and stream margins.
The true L. flava is very rare in the wild and cultivation. 
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