tobacco brush

(snowbrush ceanothus)
Ceanothus velutinus

Member of ceanothus (genus Ceanothus)
buckthorn family (family Rhamnaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
white in flowering plants

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• twig: green to red-brown, flexible
• leaf blade:
• 33–75 mm long, 13–55 mm wide, leathery
• adaxially shiny green, glabrous, ± sticky
• abaxially glabrous to ± puberulent
• margin minutely gland-toothed, teeth 90–150+
• Mt. Tamalpais

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Chris’s observations: 1 (none are research grade)

Locations:

• Lassen Volcanic NP

Months:

• Jul.: 1

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Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora