Mahonia pumila
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'Mahonia pumila' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Berberis pumila Greene
Other taxa in genus
- Mahonia acanthifolia
- Mahonia aquifolium
- Mahonia arguta
- Mahonia bealei
- Mahonia confusa
- Mahonia fortunei
- Mahonia gracilipes
- Mahonia × herveyi
- Mahonia × heterophylla
- Mahonia japonica
- Mahonia lomariifolia
- Mahonia × media
- Mahonia napaulensis
- Mahonia nervosa
- Mahonia pinnata
- Mahonia repens
- Mahonia × toluacensis
- Mahonia trifolia
A suckering shrub about 1 ft or slightly more high. Leaves 3 to 5{1/2} in. long; leaflets five to nine, 1 to 2{1/4} in. long, ovate or oblong-ovate, dull grey-green and conspicuously net-veined above, paler and somewhat glaucous beneath with up to ten spine-tipped teeth on each side. Racemes clustered, 1 to 2 in. long; pedicels with a bracteole at midpoint. Native of the mountains of California and S. Oregon. This mahonia, now available in commerce, is very distinct in its grey leaves and dwarf habit and should make a useful ground cover in a sunny place.