B42 



FENDLER CEANOTHUS 



Ceano'thus fend'leri 



Seed pod (capsule) % in. wide, flat- 

 tened, globe-shaped, somewhat 3-lobed 

 on top, 3-celled, each cell bearing one 

 hard nutlet 



Petals 5, clawed, hooded, with 5 pro- 

 truding stamens opposite them 



Outer flower parts (sep_als) 5, whitish, 

 bent inward so that tips meet, united 

 below to form cuplike disk (calyx disk), 

 which adheres to seed-producing organ 

 (ovary) and to which petals and stamens 

 are attached 



Flowers small, white, numerous, in 

 rather showy clusters at or near ends 

 of twigs 



Twigs at first greenish, later gray, 

 usually white-hairy but sometimes cov- 

 vered with waxy bloom, rigid, often 

 s.pine-pointed at tips 



Leaves alternate, 3-ribbed, normally 

 small (K to 1 in. long), on short leaf- 

 stalks, elliptic, rounded or somewhat 

 pointed at both ends, mostly entire but 

 sometimes finely toothed around edges, 

 green and smooth or somewhat silky 

 above, and pale, white-silky-hairy below 



Fendler ceanothus, also known as buckbrush, deerbriar, deer- 

 brush, and mountain ceanothus, is a low, loosely branched, usually 

 deciduous shrub, averaging from 1 to 3 feet in height, with grayish, 

 finely hairy, usually sharp-pointed (spinescent) twigs. It is named 

 in honor of its discoverer, August Fendler, who made the first large 

 collection of New Mexican plants (1847). Asa Gray, a preeminent 



