Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 16 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Altay | ALT | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China North-Central | CHN | |
| China South-Central | CHC | |
| Inner Mongolia | CHI | |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Kirgizstan | KGZ | |
| Mongolia | MON | |
| Qinghai | CHQ | |
| Tadzhikistan | TZK | |
| Tibet | CHT | |
| Tuva | TVA | |
| Xinjiang | CHX | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| West Himalaya | WHM |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 154 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -28.3 °C | -17.8 °C | -12.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 11.4 °C | 15.5 °C | 20.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 433 mm | 1,059 mm | 1,658 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 25 mm | 111 mm | 212 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 154 research-grade observations of Lonicera hispida that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 11 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Caprifolium hispidum (Pall. ex Schult.) Kuntze
- Lonicera bracteata Royle
- Lonicera finitima W.W.Sm.
- Lonicera hispida var. anisocalyx (Rehder) P.K.Chou
- Lonicera hispida var. chaetocarpa Batalin ex Rehder
- Lonicera hispida var. glabrata Batalin
- Lonicera hispida var. hirsutior Regel
- Lonicera hispida var. setosa Hook.f. & Thomson
- Lonicera montigena Rehder
- Xylosteon hispidum (Pall. ex Schult.) Rupr.
- Xylosteon hispidum var. maximum Rupr.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.