NATURALIZEDHabit: To 25 m; bark not ridged, peeling as irregular woody scales 2--8 cm wide, orange-brown where freshly exposed, soon weathering ash-gray.
Stem: corky outgrowths on branches 0; winter buds red-brown, short-ovoid or +- spheric, glabrous.
Leaf: 2.5--5 cm, 1--2 cm wide, lance-ovate to narrowly elliptic, acute to obtuse, margins obtusely and irregularly simply serrate, abaxial surface glabrous or pubescent only on major veins and tufted in vein axils.
Inflorescence: flower, fruit in autumn; pedicel +- 0.
Fruit: 1--1.3 cm, 0.6--0.8 cm wide, elliptical to ovate-elliptical, tan to dark red-brown, glabrous except for pubescence on stigmatic surface in notch.
Ecology: Streams, springs, wetlands, roadsides, disturbed areas;
Elevation: 10--1200 m.
Bioregional Distribution: CCo, SW, MP, W&I;
Distribution Outside California: to eastern United States; native to eastern Asia.
Flowering Time: Aug--Oct
Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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