Lonicera hypoglauca

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.

Lonicera hypoglauca, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-30 / obs. 131706918

Lonicera hypoglauca, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館 — fig. c 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62992022

Lonicera hypoglauca, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32422307

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Lonicera hypoglauca, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Japan	JAP
Taiwan	TAI
Vietnam	VIE	ASIA-TROPICAL

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 301 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	5.6 °C	11.5 °C	13.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	24.7 °C	28.9 °C	30.7 °C
Annual rainfall	2,168 mm	3,420 mm	4,595 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	128 mm	418 mm	828 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 301 research-grade observations of Lonicera hypoglauca 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 10 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 hypoglaucum (Miq.) Kuntze
Caprifolium mollissimum (Blume ex Maxim.) Kuntze
Lonicera affinis var. hypoglauca (Miq.) Rehder
Lonicera affinis var. mollissima Blume ex Maxim.
Lonicera affinis var. pubescens Maxim.
Lonicera hypoglauca subsp. hypoglauca
Lonicera hypoglauca subsp. nudiflora P.S.Hsu & H.J.Wang
Lonicera leschenaultii Miq.
Lonicera mollissima Blume ex Maxim.
Lonicera rubropunctata Hayata

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.