NATIVEHabit: Shrub generally 1.5--4 m.
Stem: branches +- red to purple, +- glabrous to minute-strigose, in age gray-green, generally glabrous.
Leaf: blade generally 5--10 cm, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, paler abaxially, veins 4--7 pairs.
Inflorescence: cyme, strigose; bracts 0.
Flower: petals 2--4.5 mm; style 1--3 mm.
Fruit: 7--9 mm, white to cream; stone smooth or 3-ridged on faces, furrowed on sides.
Note: Highly variable complex with many local forms, treated broadly here. Subspecies intergrade widely.
Jepson eFlora Author: James R. Shevock
Reference: Murrell 1993 Syst Bot 18:469--495; Wahlsteen et al. 2021 J Syst Evol 59: 405--416
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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