Ceanothus fendleri
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ceanothus fendleri' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Ceanothus americanus
- Ceanothus arboreus
- Ceanothus 'Burkwoodii'
- Ceanothus coeruleus
- Ceanothus crassifolius
- Ceanothus cuneatus
- Ceanothus cyaneus
- Ceanothus × delilianus
- Ceanothus dentatus
- Ceanothus foliosus
- Ceanothus gloriosus
- Ceanothus impressus
- Ceanothus incanus
- Ceanothus integerrimus
- Ceanothus megacarpus
- Ceanothus ovatus
- Ceanothus papillosus
- Ceanothus parryi
- Ceanothus parvifolius
- Ceanothus prostratus
- Ceanothus purpureus
- Ceanothus rigidus
- Ceanothus sanguineus
- Ceanothus sorediatus
- Ceanothus thyrsiflorus
- Ceanothus × veitchianus
- Ceanothus velutinus
A twiggy, deciduous shrub 4 to 6 ft high; with round, downy, spinose branchlets. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate to ovate, 1 in. or less long; three-veined, short-stalked, downy especially beneath; glandular-toothed towards the apex, or entire; of a dull grey-green. Flowers bluish white, in a cluster of umbels or fascicles at the end of the twigs, each cluster 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. across; petals spoon-shaped, stamens with whitish stalks and yellow anthers. Bot. Mag., t. 9264.
Native of the Rocky Mountains, from Colorado and New Mexico to Arizona, up to 8,000 ft. altitude. This ceanothus withstood the severe winter of 1908–9 better than any other W. American species, but it is one of the least showy, its foliage being dull and its flowers of an indeterminate hue. Introduced about 1898.