Ceanothus gloriosus |
Ceanothus pinetorum |
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glory mat, Point Reyes ceanothus |
Coville ceanothus, Coville's ceanothus, Kern ceanothus |
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Habit | Shrubs, 0.1–3 m, matlike to moundlike. | Shrubs, 0.5–1.5 m, sometimes moundlike. | ||||||||
Stems | prostrate, spreading, ascending, or erect, sometimes rooting at proximal nodes; branchlets green to brown or reddish brown, flexible to rigid, strigillose or tomentulose. |
erect, spreading, or weakly ascending, sometimes arcuate, rooting at proximal nodes; branchlets reddish to grayish brown, sometimes glaucous, rigid, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. |
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Leaves | not fascicled, not crowded; petiole 1–4 mm; blade flat to ± cupped or folded lengthwise adaxially, widely elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 10–40(–45) × 5–24 mm, base cuneate to ± rounded, margins not revolute, sometimes slightly thickened, dentate to denticulate most of length, teeth 9–35, apex rounded, truncate, or retuse, abaxial surface pale green, sparsely strigillose or glabrate, adaxial surface dark green, ± shiny, glabrous. |
sometimes fascicled, not crowded; petiole 1–3 mm; blade flat to slightly cupped, slightly folded lengthwise adaxially, widely elliptic to suborbiculate, 10–20 × 8–19 mm, base rounded, margins thick to slightly revolute, dentate to denticulate most of length, teeth 9–15, apex rounded, abaxial surface pale green, glabrous except on veins, adaxial surface dark green, glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | axillary, 0.9–2.5 cm. |
axillary, 1.2–2.1 cm. |
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Flowers | sepals, petals, and nectary deep blue to bluish purple. |
sepals, petals, and nectary pale blue to blue. |
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Capsules | 4–6 mm wide, lobed; valves usually smooth, sometimes rugulose or crested distal to middle, horns subapical, minute, not rugose, intermediate ridges absent. |
6–9 mm wide, weakly lobed; valves smooth to rugulose, horns subapical, prominent, erect, rugose, intermediate ridges present. |
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Ceanothus gloriosus |
Ceanothus pinetorum |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | |||||||||
Habitat | Rocky granitic or metamorphic slopes and ridges, open pine forests. | |||||||||
Elevation | 1600–2600 m. (5200–8500 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Ceanothus gloriosus is composed of three varieties occurring along the northern California coast from Humboldt County to Marin County. Variety gloriosus and var. porrectus generally differ primarily by leaf shape, length and width, and the number of marginal teeth. Variety exaltatus differs from the other two varieties primarily in stature. Complex hybrids with C. cuneatus var. ramulosus, C. divergens, and C. sonomensis were studied by J. T. Howell (1940). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ceanothus pinetorum occurs disjunctly in the southern Trinity Mountains (Shasta and Trinity counties) and in the southern Sierra Nevada (Kern and Tulare counties). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 102. | FNA vol. 12, p. 106. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Cerastes | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Cerastes | ||||||||
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Name authority | J. T. Howell: Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 43. (1937) | Coville: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 4: 80, plate 6. (1893) | ||||||||
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