Caprifoliaceae: "The Honeysuckle Family"

Perennial herbs, woody vines, shrubs, or small trees

Leaves opposite, mostly exstipulate

Flowers perfect, regular or irregular, epigynous (ovary inferior)

Corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed

Stamens adnate to the corolla, alternate with corolla lobes

Fruit usally fleshy, indehiscent

Provided by Jonathan Wenger, October 1996.