Habit: Shrub, slender, generally hairy, also +- glandular, especially in inflorescence, generally deciduous.
Leaf: simple, entire to lobed.
Inflorescence: compound cyme, umbel-like, generally terminal, rounded or +- flat-topped, generally with oblanceolate bracts, marginal flowers larger, sterile or all flowers +- alike; peduncles 1.5--4 cm; rays generally 7.
Flower: ovary chambers 1 (2 abort), ovule pendent; style short, stigma lobes 3.
Fruit: drupe, drupe-like.
Seed: 1.
Species In Genus: +- 250 species: northern temperate, subtropics.
Etymology: (Latin: for pliable branches used in binding)
Note: Viburnum rigidum naturalized in SnFrB (Tilden Park); material previously identified as
Viburnum edule belongs instead to
Viburnum opulus.
Jepson eFlora Author: Thomas J. Rosatti & Charles D. Bell
Reference: Clement et al. 2014 Amer J Bot 101:1029--1049
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Viburnum
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