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It is a deciduous, dicot shrub growing 0.5–3.5 m (1.5–11.5 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, elliptic in shape, 6–10 cm (2.4–3.9 in) long, unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, jaggedly serrated, and turning red in autumn; their underside glabrous, especially along the veins.
It grows in many habitat types and plant communities, including pinyon-juniper woodland, creosote bush scrub, sagebrush scrub, chaparral, and coastal sage scrub. [3] This plant is a shrub growing up to about 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) in maximum height. It grows from a large fibrous root system which can extend over 9 metres (30 ft) from the base ...
Rhus trilobata is a shrub in the sumac genus with the common names skunkbush sumac, [1] sourberry, skunkbush, [2] and three-leaf sumac.It is native to the western half of Canada and the Western United States, from the Great Plains to California and south through Arizona extending into northern Mexico.
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family ().
Viburnum lantanoides (commonly known as hobble-bush, [1] witch-hobble, alder-leaved viburnum, American wayfaring tree, [2] and moosewood [3]) is a perennial shrub of the family Adoxaceae (formerly in the Caprifoliaceae), growing 2–4 meters (6–12 ft) high with pendulous branches that take root where they touch the ground.
Atriplex canescens has a highly variable form, and readily hybridizes with several other species in the genus Atriplex.The degree of polyploidy also results in variations in form.
Atriplex semibaccata is a taproot perennial herb, that has prostrated and decumbent characteristics. [2] Native to Australia and widespread in all mainland Australian states, A. semibaccata thrives in harsh and saline conditions.
Carissa spinarum, the conkerberry or bush plum, is a large shrub of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae), widely distributed in tropical regions of Africa, Southern Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Indian Ocean. [2] It is most well known in Australia, where it is also called currant bush or, more ambiguously, native currant or even black ...