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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Buckthorn Family
  7. California-lilacs
  8. Ceanothus Subg. Ceanothus
  9. Greenbark Ceanothus

species 3,257 observations

Greenbark Ceanothus

Ceanothus spinosus

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

113 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Ceanothus Silk Moth, Ceanothus Nola Moth, Wright's Hulstina, Western Sheep Moth 39
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Ceanothus Bud Gall Midge, Pacific Flat-Headed Borer 2
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Margined Calligrapher, White-bowed Smoothwing, Common Grass Skimmer, Western Yellowjacket 16
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Callimoxys fuscipennis, Ornate Checkered Beetle, Eschatocrepis constrictus, Black-tailed Bumble Bee 56

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

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