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8. Leaves alternate. [Alternate 8, p. 169.] 



14. Leaves 3-veined from near base, broadly elliptic, to 'A 

 inches long, shiny green (bronze in winter) and sticky- 

 varnished on upper surface, pale-velvety on under surface: 

 odor spicy-resinous; leaf margins with fine, gland-tipped 

 teeth; flowers creamy white, in umbrellalike hunches 

 massed in showy end clusters; seed pods (capsules) cupped 

 in shallow disks, stalked, somewhat globe-shaped, 3-lobed, 

 smooth or slightly roughened and/or with tiny crests at 

 lobe tips, often sticky-glandular; roots with (probably 

 nitrogen-fixing) nodules; round-topped shrubs with spread- 

 ing branches, 2-15 feet high; rather common, Cascades; 

 mts. of e. Oreg., e. Wash.; type locality, "Subalpine hills 

 near the source of the Columbia, and at Kettle Falls," 

 (Wash.)_ snowbrush ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus). A2 



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Flower (enlarged) 



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Seed pod (enlarged) 



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42 See the Summer and Winter Keys for deerbrush ceanothus (Ceanothus 

 integerrimus) , the leaves of which are somewhat winter-persistent. 



