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Shepherdia canadensis
CANADIAN BUFFALO-BERRY


Higher Taxonomy
Family: ElaeagnaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: OLEASTER FAMILY
Habit: Shrub, tree, generally thorny, generally densely silvery-hairy throughout; hairs generally scale-like; occasionally +- dioecious. Leaf: simple, alternate or opposite, generally deciduous, entire; petiole generally short; stipules 0. Inflorescence: generally umbel-like, axillary; flowers 1--few. Flower: radial; hypanthium rotate to salverform, fleshy in age, lower part generally constricted, persistent, with a nectary disk; sepals generally 4, +- petal-like; petals 0; anthers 4 or 8, +- sessile; ovary superior but appearing inferior, chamber 1, style 1. Fruit: achene enclosed in fleshy hypanthium, appearing drupe- or berry-like.
Genera In Family: 3 genera, +- 45 species: North America, Europe, Asia, eastern Australia; especially temperate, subtropics.
eFlora Treatment Author: Elizabeth McClintock, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: ShepherdiaView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Habit: Shrub; dioecious. Flower: small, clustered in leaf axils. Staminate Flower: hypanthium rotate; disk lobes alternate with stamens. Pistillate Flower: hypanthium urn-shaped, +- closed distally; disk lobes 8, +- meeting above ovary; stigma cap-like.
Etymology: (John Shepherd, curator of Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1764--1836)
eFlora Treatment Author: Alan T. Whittemore
Shepherdia canadensis (L.) Nutt.
NATIVE
Habit: Plant 0.7--4 m. Leaf: 4--6 cm, 2--4 cm wide, oblong or ovate to triangular-ovate, adaxially green. Flower: brown-scaly. Fruit: 8--9 mm, ellipsoidal, red.
Ecology: Streambanks, slopes, conifer forest; Elevation: 1700 m. Bioregional Distribution: e KR; Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, eastern United States. Flowering Time: Apr--May Note: Fruit bitter, inedible.
Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore
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Citation for this treatment: Alan T. Whittemore 2012, Shepherdia canadensis, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=44297, accessed on April 18, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.

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