Native twinberry honeysuckle spotted and confirmed in BC's Thompson-Nicola
iNaturalist: taylor_justason
Native Plants
If you hike or garden in interior British Columbia, this shrub's shiny black twin berries and red bracts are a reliable summer marker that hummingbirds and native bees are already working the area.
Someone out in Thompson-Nicola, BC spotted a twinberry honeysuckle bush and snapped photos good enough for other naturalists to confirm exactly what it was. That confirmation makes it a research-grade record, meaning scientists and land managers can actually trust and use this sighting to understand where the plant lives. It's a small thing, but thousands of these logged sightings add up to real maps of native plant ranges.
Key Findings
Observation reached 'research-grade' status on iNaturalist, meaning community identification consensus confirmed the species.
Location recorded in the Thompson-Nicola region of British Columbia, Canada.
Species identified as Lonicera involucrata, commonly known as twinberry honeysuckle, a shrub native to western North America.
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A citizen scientist confirmed a sighting of twinberry honeysuckle, a native shrub with striking black paired berries, in the Thompson-Nicola region of British Columbia, adding a verified data point to our picture of where this plant grows.
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Original paper
twinberry honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata) observed in Thompson-Nicola, BC, CA
Research-grade observation of twinberry honeysuckle in Thompson-Nicola, BC, CA.
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Lonicera involucrata, the bearberry honeysuckle, bracted honeysuckle, twinberry honeysuckle, Californian Honeysuckle, twin-berry, or black twinberry, is a species of honeysuckle native to northern and western North America.