My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

New Jersey Tea; Wild Snowball; Red-root
Ceanothus americanus
Flowers–Small, white, on white pedicels, crowded in dense, oblong, terminal clusters. Calyx white, hemispheric, 5-lobed; 5 petals, hooded and long-clawed; 5 stamens with long filaments; style short, 3-cleft. Stems: Shrubby, 1 to 3 ft. high, usually several, from a deep reddish root. Leaves: Alternate, ovate-oblong, acute at [...]

November 2nd, 2008 | Tags: American Troops, Downy, Dye, Filaments, Gulf Of Mexico, Hemispheric, Housewives, Jersey Tea, Little Flowers, Patriotism, Petals, Preferred Habitat, Revolutionary Days, Snowball, Stamens, Stems, Sweetness, Terminal Clusters, Thickets, Twigs | Category: Buckthorn Family | Leave a comment