Family | RHAMNACEAE |
Genus species | Ceanothus jepsonii Greene |
Habitat | dry, rocky slopes |
Altitude | 200-1000m |
Description | branchlets grey-brown, strigose, leaves opposite, evergreen, ovate to elliptic, rigid, obtuse, spiny dentate, adaxially yellow-green, glabrous, inflorescence dense raceme to 2cm |
Size | 50-150cm |
Color | blue, violet |
Bloom | spring |
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Type | ascending shrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring after hot water treatment, germ. 3-6 months cuttings in late summer; layering in spring |
Territory |
Northern America
Southwestern U.S.A. (California) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | RHAMNACEAE
jepsonii albiflorus J.T.Howell, Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 231 (1943)
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