Holodiscus discolor var. microphyllus

Small-leaf creambush

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Small-leaf creambush is a California native shrub found in the Sierra Nevada, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, eastern Sierra Nevada, and desert mountains in rocky places at elevations of 1,100 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces creamy white flowers in compact clusters 2 to 8 centimeters long. Growing as a dense shrub 30 to 100 centimeters tall with hairy twigs, it forms a compact, rounded shape. Its leaves are small, approximately 3 to 30 millimeters long, roundish to obovate, with long hairs on one or both surfaces and small teeth near the leaf tip. The shrub has a wedge-shaped leaf base and dense, somewhat compact growth habit.

Habitat: Rocky places, outcrops

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1100-4000 m

Bioregions: SNH, SnGb, SnBr, SnJt, SNE, DMtns

California counties: Kern, Tulare, Inyo, Alpine, Los Angeles, Mono, Tehama, Mendocino, San Bernardino, Madera, Trinity, Fresno, Riverside, El Dorado, Mariposa, Del Norte, Santa Barbara, Tuolumne, Amador, Ventura, Nevada, Monterey, Plumas, San Diego, Placer, Siskiyou, Butte, Shasta

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