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9. Clustered seed pods lacking; white berries often persistent; 

 leaf scars indistinct, with only 1 bundle trace; twigs slender; 

 side buds tiny (about y% inch long), with several pairs of bud 



scales visible snowberries (Symphoricarpos spp.). 



10. Pith hollow; twigs hairless; bark of older branches gray; 



berries globe-shaped, clustered at twig tips; commonest 



snowberry of lower and middle altitudes, e. Oreg., e. 



Wash.; tvpe locality, Holmes Creek, near Laurel, Falcon 



Valley, Klickitat Co., Wash. 



Columbia snowberry (Symphoricarpos rivularis). 



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Columbia snowberry 



