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Plant - summer Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Leaves Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Opposite leaves Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Flowers Little Thumb Butte
Charlie Johnson | Fruit Granite Mtn - Tr 308
Sue Smith | Branch Grapevine Canyon
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Origin: Native Similar Species: Ceanothus fendleri
General Description: Evergreen. Small round shrub with numerous short, stiff side branches. Branches are stiff but not spiny. Fine textured with gray leaves. White flowers.
Identification notes: Stems erect, gray to reddish-gray with white hairs, not armed; numerous opposite short twigs; leaves opposite, simple, evergreen, oval to obovate, margins entire or often toothed; flowers small, white to light green in small loose clusters in leaf axils.
Height: 1 to 6 feet Width: 3 feet
Habitat Description: Grows on dry, rocky slopes, foothills, canyons, gullies and in erosion channels.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3000 - 7000 feet
Color: White to light green Shape: Inconspicuous in round clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Mar - Apr
Description: Flower heads of small umbel-like clusters. Flowers white to light green, petals white and slightly longer than the sepals.
Leaf Color: Grayish-green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Smooth Attachment: Opposite Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Thick and leathery, opposite, short stemmed, narrowly ovate to elliptic or obovate, up to 1 inch long and to 1/2 inch wide, margins smooth or toothed, dark green and concave above, paler and distinctly pinnate-veined beneath.
Color: Reddish-green to brown Type: Capsule Description: Capsule rounded, slightly 3-lobed, 3/16 inch in diameter, may have horn-like or warty projections.
Bark Color: Gray Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Initially light gray and smooth, becoming darker and rough with age. Light gray, felt-covered bark on old branches.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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