Ceanothus
Family: Rhamnaceae
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CANOTIA 2(1)
PLANT: Shrubs, armed or unarmed. STEMS: spreading to erect, green-brown to gray, pubescent to glabrous. LEAVES: evergreen or deciduous, alternate or opposite, entire or dentate, acute to rounded, palmately to pinnately veined. INFLORESCENCE: of cymose panicles. FLOWERS: perfect, pedicellate; sepals 5, white to light blue or purple; petals 5, 3-5 mm long, long-clawed, white to light blue or purple. FRUITS: 3-chambered capsules, green maturing dark brown to black, globose, roughened; seeds 1 per chamber. NOTES: Ceanothus is prized as a honey plant, and is used medicinally and ceremonially by many native American tribes (Moerman 1998). Many species of Ceanothus have been cultivated as ornamentals, most commonly known as wild-lilac or mountain-lilac. -62 spp. in N. Amer. (4 in AZ). REFERENCES: Kyle Christie, Michael Currie, Laura Smith Davis, Mar-Elise Hill, Suzanne Neal, and Tina Ayers, 2006 Vascular Plants of Arizona: Rhamnaceae. CANOTIA 2(1): 23-46.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Sep inflexed, at length deciduous above the hypanthium; pet long-clawed, in bud incurved with the infolded sides of the broad blade clasping the anther, at anthesis spreading or deflexed between the sep; stamens at anthesis free and exsert; ovary 3-angled and 3-locular, immersed in the disk; style 3-lobed; fr a 3-lobed capsule-like drupe subtended by the persistent hypanthium, the exocarp thin, dark, coriaceous, the endocarp eventually loculicidally dehiscent; shrubs with alternate, 3-nerved, glandular-serrate lvs and numerous small white (in our spp.) to blue fls in sessile or short- peduncled umbels aggregated into terminal or axillary pedunculate panicles. 55, N. Amer.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Ceanothus americanus
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Ceanothus arboreus
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Ceanothus arcuatus
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Ceanothus austromontanus
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Ceanothus azureus
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Ceanothus bolensis
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Ceanothus buxifolius
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Ceanothus caeruleus
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Ceanothus confusus
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Ceanothus connivens
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Ceanothus cordulatus
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Ceanothus crassifolius
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Ceanothus cuneatus
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Ceanothus cyaneus
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Ceanothus decornutus
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Ceanothus decumbens
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Ceanothus dentatus
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Ceanothus depressus
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Ceanothus divaricatus
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Ceanothus divergens
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Ceanothus diversifolius
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Ceanothus fendleri
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Ceanothus ferox
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Ceanothus ferrisae
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Ceanothus ferrisiae
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Ceanothus floribundus
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Ceanothus foliosus
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Ceanothus fresnensis
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Ceanothus gloriosus
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Ceanothus greggii
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Ceanothus griseus
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Ceanothus hearstiorum
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Ceanothus herbaceus
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Ceanothus hirsutus
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Ceanothus huichagorare
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Ceanothus impressus
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Ceanothus incanus
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Ceanothus insularis
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Ceanothus integerrimus
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Ceanothus intermedius
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Ceanothus jepsonii
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Ceanothus lanuginosus
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Ceanothus lemmonii
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Ceanothus leucodermis
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Ceanothus macrocarpus
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Ceanothus maritimus
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Ceanothus martini
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Ceanothus masonii
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Ceanothus megacarpus
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Ceanothus microphyllus
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