Orange Honeysuckle
(Lonicera ciliosa)
Five Species of honeysucklke grow in the gorge
  1. Orange Honeysuckle: Lonicera ciliosa - Stems climbing. Flowers are in clusters, orange, and tubular in shape, subtended by the large, rounded leaf.
  2. Double Honeysuckle, Purple-flower Honeysuckle, : Lonicera conjugialis - Stems erect, forming a small bush to 1.5 meters high. Flowers are dark red to purplish-brown,
  3. Etruscan Honeysuckle: Lonicera etrusca - Stems climbing. Uppermost pair of opposite leaves with their bases not fused completely around the stem as in #1 above).
  4. Bearberry, Black Twin-berry, Twinberry, Twinberry Honeysuckle: Lonicera involucrata - Stems erect, forming a small bush to 3 meters tall. Flowers are yellowish, in pairs subtended by a dark red to purplish involucre.
  5. Red Twinberry, Rocky Mountain Honeysuckle Utah Honeysuckle


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