Ceanothus integerrimus

Deer brush

Family: Rhamnaceae · Type: tree · Native

Deer brush is a California native tree found in various bioregions in chaparral, foothill woodland, and conifer forest. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white to blue (occasionally pink) flowers in panicle-like clusters 4 to 20 centimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect flexible stems up to 4 meters tall, it develops an open, occasionally tree-like form with green twigs. Its alternate leaves are thin and flat, ranging 15 to 53 millimeters long and 10 to 45 millimeters wide, with a dull green upper surface and pale green underside, typically with entire margins and 1 to 3 ribs from the base. The fruit is sticky, 4 to 6.5 millimeters wide, with a smooth to slightly ridged surface.

California counties: Humboldt, Placer, El Dorado, San Bernardino, Mendocino, Shasta, Del Norte, Lake, Tehama, Trinity, Calaveras, Butte, Los Angeles, Siskiyou, Modoc, Tulare, Monterey, Kern, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Plumas, San Diego, Tuolumne, Sonoma, Fresno, Santa Clara, Nevada, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Orange, Sierra, Madera, Amador, Yuba, Mariposa, Colusa, Napa, Glenn, San Benito, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yolo, Alpine, San Mateo

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