Ceanothus impressus

Santa barbara ceanothus

Family: Rhamnaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Santa barbara ceanothus is a California native shrub found in coastal environments at moderate elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces distinctive blue flowers in compact umbel-like clusters 1 to 3.5 centimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect stems featuring flexible, dark brown to gray-brown twigs, it forms an open to dense structure. Its evergreen leaves are widely ovate to nearly round, dark green on top with prominent vein furrows, densely short-hairy underneath, and measuring 5 to 25 millimeters long with thick, minutely gland-toothed margins that often curl slightly under. The shrub's compact form and textured blue blossoms make it a characteristic element of its native coastal habitat.

California counties: Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Alameda, San Luis Obispo, Madera, Santa Clara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.