Panarctic Flora

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880103 Lonicera villosa (Michx.) Schult

Distribution

Hudson Bay - Labrador: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered

GBIF

2n= (1) 18 (2x). - Canada (E), U.S.A. (NE). - Löve and Löve (1966, 1982b).
(2) 36 (4x). - Canada (E). - Löve (1954b, an untrustworthy paper); Plekhanova et al. (1992).

Geography: North American (N): CAN.

Notes: We apply the combination Lonicera villosa (Michx.) Schult. for this American vicariant of L. caerulea. This combination is applied by many authors but we have not been able to find where it originally was published.

Lonicera villosa is polymorphic and recognized with several races, mostly treated as varieties. The one that reached the Arctic is var. calvescens (e.g., Scoggan 1979; Hultén and Fries 1986).

Higher Taxa