Biology:Symphoricarpos rotundifolius

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Short description: Species of shrub

Symphoricarpos rotundifolius
Mountain snowberry Symphoricarpus rotundifolius berries.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Dipsacales
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Genus: Symphoricarpos
Species:
S. rotundifolius
Binomial name
Symphoricarpos rotundifolius
A.Gray 1853

Symphoricarpos rotundifolius is a North American subshrub in the honeysuckle family, also known by the common name round-leaved snowberry.[1][2]

Habitat and range

Symphoricarpos rotundifolius is native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico. It has been found in California , Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, eastern Oregon, the Oklahoma Panhandle, far western Texas , and northern Baja California.[3][4][5]

Growth pattern

Symphoricarpos rotundifolius is an erect, spreading, or trailing subshrub, about 2 to 4 feet (0.61 to 1.22 m) tall,[1] with many stiff branches.[4]

Stems and leaves

Older woody parts are covered in shreddy bark and smaller, newer twigs are coated in fuzzy hairs.[4]

The species epithet, rotundifolia ("round leaved") is slightly misleading, since the 14 to 34 inch (0.6 to 1.9 cm) leaves are oval to elliptic, not perfectly circular.[1] Leaves are green above, and pale green with many veins below.[1][4]

Inflorescence and fruit

The inflorescence is a raceme emerging from the leaf axils with one or two pendant flowers having narrowly bell-shaped, pink to white corollas up to 1 cm (0.4 inch) with a lobed mouth.[1][4]

The fruit is a white berry-like drupe about a centimeter (0.4 inch) wide, containing two seeds.[4]

The genus name means "fruits together", referring to flowers and fruits usually occurring in pairs.[1] [4]

It flowers from June to August.[1]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4425542 entry