The pale yellow flower on this California native are pretty, but it is the red berries in fall that are really special. This vining plant likes to grow up through a studier bush like manzanita or ceanothus. Like a lot of vines, it prefers its roots in the shade, and its leaves in the sun. In bloom now at the UC Botanical Garden.
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Various sources, including the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, say bush honeeysuckle is a good butterfly nectar plant. Nature Shutterbug photographed a Mournful Duskywing at nectar on it, and it is listed as a caterpillar plant for the Snowberry Clearwing moth. I would like to know more about whatever Lepidoptera value it may have.
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