NATURALIZEDHabit: To 25 m; bark deeply ridged, remaining firmly attached, medium gray.
Stem: corky outgrowths on branches 0; winter buds dark brown or red-brown, +- spheric to ovoid; inner bud scale margins generally white ciliate.
Leaf: 2--8 cm, 1.2--3.5 cm wide, ovate- to lance-elliptic, acute or short-acuminate (acuminate), margins simply or doubly serrate, abaxial surface glabrous or pubescent only on major veins and tufted in vein axils.
Inflorescence: flower, fruit before leaves in spring; pedicel +- 0.
Fruit: 1--2 cm, 1--1.5 cm wide, +- round (broadly obovate or elliptic), +- white-tan, glabrous except for pubescence on stigmatic surface in notch.
Ecology: Streambanks, washes, bottomland, roadsides, disturbed areas;
Elevation: 20--1500 m.
Bioregional Distribution: SN, SW, GB;
Distribution Outside California: native to northern Asia.
Flowering Time: Mar--Apr
Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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