Ceanothus crassifolius
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Ceanothus crassifolius' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Ceanothus americanus
- Ceanothus arboreus
- Ceanothus 'Burkwoodii'
- Ceanothus coeruleus
- Ceanothus cuneatus
- Ceanothus cyaneus
- Ceanothus × delilianus
- Ceanothus dentatus
- Ceanothus fendleri
- 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
An evergreen shrub of dense habit, attaining a height of about 12 ft in the wild. Leaves leathery, opposite, mostly elliptic, obtuse or rounded at the apex, up to 11⁄4 in. long, olive-green above, their undersurface (and the young stems) clad with a white wool, margins revolute, rarely plane, sharply toothed, rarely almost entire. Flowers white, borne in early spring in almost sessile axillary clusters up to about 3⁄4 in. long.
A native of the mountains of southern California; introduced to Kew in 1980 by means of seeds received from the Santa Ana Botanic Garden. It is untested as yet, and might succeed best in eastern England, as it inhabits dry, open slopes in the wild. This species was grown and praised by Lester Rowntree, and is mentioned in her book Flowering Shrubs of California, p. 55 (1939).