Ceanothus impressus |
Ceanothus incanus |
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Santa Barbara ceanothus |
coast whitethorn |
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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. | Shrubs, evergreen, 1–4 m. Stems erect, not rooting at nodes; branchlets light gray, glaucous, thorn-tipped or not, round or slightly angled in cross section, rigid, puberulent, glabrescent. | ||||
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. |
not fascicled; petiole 3–12 mm; blade flat, elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 20–60 × 10–30 mm, base rounded or subcordate, margins entire, sometimes minutely glandular-denticulate above middle, glands 26–52, apex obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, appressed-puberulent, glabrescent, adaxial surface grayish green, dull, glabrate; 3-veined from base. |
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Inflorescences | axillary or terminal, umbel-like to racemelike, 1.2–3.5 cm. |
axillary, usually paniclelike, sometimes racemelike, 3–6 cm. |
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Flowers | sepals, petals, and nectary blue. |
sepals, petals, and nectary usually white to cream, sometimes pink. |
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Capsules | 3–4 mm wide, lobed; valves smooth, crested. |
4–5 mm wide, ± lobed; valves rugose, viscid when young, not or weakly crested. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Ceanothus impressus |
Ceanothus incanus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |||||
Habitat | Flats, slopes, chaparral, open sites in conifer and mixed evergreen forests. | |||||
Elevation | 60–1000 m. (200–3300 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ceanothus incanus is restricted to the Klamath and Santa Cruz mountains and North Coast Ranges of California. Some populations are evidently polymorphic for the presence of thorn-tipped or non-thorn-tipped branchlets (F. K. Klein 1970). Putative hybrids with C. papillosus and C. parryi have been reported (H. McMinn 1944); hybrids with C. thyrsiflorus have been called C. ×vanrensselaeri Roof. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 91. | FNA vol. 12, p. 86. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Ceanothus | Rhamnaceae > Ceanothus > subg. Ceanothus | ||||
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Name authority | Trelease: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 1: 112. (1888) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 265. (1838) | ||||
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