I hope somebody can help me identify this wild shrub which bears bright translucent orange berries. It grows along my country road and also at the Mission Park Greenway in Kelowna, BC. It appears to be a suckering shrub, growing to approximately 10-15 feet high with a spread of about 10 or more feet. I don't have pics of the flowers, but they were white and originally I thought it was a Saskatoon bush, having similar flowers, but flowering later than the Saskatoons. If it helps at all - it was growing next to a Pin Cherry tree. I have a website dedicated to identifying the Central Okanagan's weeds and wildflowers and this one is stumping me BIG TIME! There's also a few others on that site under the Mystery Plants ... if you can ID any of those, it would also be appreciated! Many thanks.
Looks like Lonicera sp. Website-Mystery Plants: 1. Lepidium perfoliatum 4. looks like Erythronium grandiflorum
More on the mystery plants: number 2 reminds me of a Lomatium - I'd track down the species, but someone's borrowed our Illustrated Flora of BC from our reading room. #3 reminds me of a Claytonia.
If you can't find the honeysuckle in descriptions of native species it may be a non-native one growing wild. It looks generaly like ones planted for ornament in cold climates.
Thank you Lila, Daniel and Ron. I will check those out. Much appreciated. Re: Honeysuckle ... this is what I have always known as Honeysuckle. Am I wrong?
Looks like yellow sweet clover and white sweet clover, in the pea family. You can see the resemblance to pea flowers in the individual blooms of these. Honeysuckles are vining and shrubby woody plants with mostly tubular or trumpet-shaped flowers.
Cripes - how stupid of me! Of course that's sweet clover - duh :( Put it down to too many nights with too few hours of sleep and exceptionally hectic days right now. I'm burning it at both ends and the flames are starting to meet in the middle.
