Ceanothus cuneatus |
Ceanothus parryi |
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buck brush, common buckbrush, narrow-leaf buckthorn, sedge-leaf buckthorn, wedgeleaf cuneatus |
ladybush, Parry ceanothus, Parry's ceanothus |
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Habit | Shrubs, 0.5–3.5 m. Stems erect, ascending, or spreading, not rooting at nodes; branchlets grayish brown to brown, rigid or flexible, glabrate, puberulent, or tomentulose, hairs straight. | Shrubs, evergreen, 2–6 m. Stems erect or ascending, not rooting at nodes; branchlets grayish green to brown, not thorn-tipped, usually round, sometimes ± angled, in cross section, flexible, lanate to woolly, glabrescent. | ||||||||||||
Leaves | usually both fascicled and not fascicled on same plant, rarely none fascicled; petiole 1–3 mm; blade flat to cupped, elliptic, oblanceolate, obovate, or orbiculate, 4–22(–30) × 3–12(–22) mm, base rounded, margins thick, not revolute, entire or denticulate distal to middle, teeth 0–9, apex obtuse, rounded, truncate, or retuse, abaxial surface pale green, glabrate or glabrous, adaxial surface green, glabrous. |
petiole 1–8 mm; blade flat to slightly cupped, oblong or ± elliptic, 12–50 × 6–20 mm, base obtuse to rounded, margins entire or obscurely glandular-denticulate, narrowly revolute, glands 21–36, apex obtuse, abaxial surface green, cobwebby, soon glabrescent, adaxial surface dark green, shiny, villosulous, glabrescent; usually 3-veined from base, rarely pinnately veined. |
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Inflorescences | axillary or terminal, 0.8–2.5 cm. |
axillary or terminal, paniclelike, 5–15 cm. |
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Flowers | sepals, petals, and nectary white to lavender or blue. |
sepals, petals, and nectary deep blue. |
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Capsules | 4–6 mm wide, weakly lobed; valves smooth, horns subapical, prominent, erect, intermediate ridges absent. |
2.5–4 mm wide, lobed; valves smooth, not or weakly crested. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Ceanothus cuneatus |
Ceanothus parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Rocky soils, open sites, flats, mixed evergreen and redwood forests. | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 30–800 m. (100–2600 ft.) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; nw Mexico
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ceanothus parryi occurs in the outer coast ranges of Oregon (Benton and Lane counties) and from Humboldt County south to Napa County in California; it is reported to hybridize with C. foliosus, C. incanus, and C. thyrsiflorus (H. McMinn 1944). The deep blue sepals and petals, cobwebby indumentum on young leaves, and narrowly revolute leaf margins are diagnostic. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 99. | FNA vol. 12, p. 90. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Cerastes | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Ceanothus | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Rhamnus cuneata | |||||||||||||
Name authority | (Hooker) Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 267. (1838) | Trelease: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 1: 109. (1888) | ||||||||||||
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