A deciduous shrub 2 to 5 ft high, branches erect; free from down in all its parts. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, tapered to a stalkless base, abruptly pointed, 3⁄4 to 11⁄4 in. long, 1⁄4 to 3⁄8 in. wide, glaucous, especially beneath. Flowers produced during May and June in pairs from the terminal leaf-axils of short branchlets or the lower leaf-axils of stronger ones, each pair subtended by two rather sickle-shaped bracts 1⁄4 in. long, and borne on a stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long. Corolla rosy-tinted white, 5⁄8 in. in diameter; the tube scarcely as much long, swollen on one side at the base; the lobes roundish ovate, spreading. Berries red, globose, 1⁄4 in. diameter; each pair united only at the base. Bot. Mag., t. 7774.
Native of the eastern Pyrenees and the Balearic Isles; introduced, according to Aiton, in 1739. A very pretty shrub, perhaps the most pleasing in flower of all the dwarf bush honeysuckles. There is a specimen about 5 ft high at Kew on the wall of the North Gallery.
L. pyrenaica received an Award of Merit on 22 May 1928, when shown by Messrs Marchant.