Ceanothus impressus |
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Santa Barbara ceanothus |
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Habit | Shrubs, evergreen, 0.5–3 m. Stems erect, not rooting at nodes; branchlets brown, not thorn-tipped, round in cross section, flexible, puberulent. | ||||
Leaves | petiole 0–4 mm; blade ± flat to strongly cupped, oblong, elliptic, or suborbiculate, 5–20(–25) × 2.5–17(–20) mm, base rounded, margins serrulate, thick to weakly or strongly revolute, teeth 11–29, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface pale green, villosulous, adaxial surface dark to medium green, sparsely puberulent, not glandular papillate; pinnately veined, veins furrowed. |
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Inflorescences | axillary or terminal, umbel-like to racemelike, 1.2–3.5 cm. |
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Flowers | sepals, petals, and nectary blue. |
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Capsules | 3–4 mm wide, lobed; valves smooth, crested. |
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Ceanothus impressus |
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Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 91. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Ceanothus | ||||
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Name authority | Trelease: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 1: 112. (1888) | ||||
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