Symphoricarpos longiflorus

Fragrant snowberry, Fragrant Snowberry

Family: Caprifoliaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Fragrant snowberry is a California native shrub found in the Great Basin and Desert Mountains in rocky habitats at elevations of 1,350 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces fragrant pink or cream flowers 8 to 15 millimeters long with slender tubes often colored red or purple externally. Growing 0.9 to 1.2 meters tall with stiff branches that can be spiny, the shrub features young red or brown bark that becomes white and shredding with age. Its leaves are small and thick, approximately 0.5 to 2 centimeters long, with a bluish-green color and lanceolate shape. The fruit is a dry, narrowly elliptic structure approximately 7 millimeters long.

Habitat: Among rocks

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 1350-1600 m

Bioregions: GB, DMtns

California counties: Inyo, San Bernardino, Mono, Modoc, Plumas, Lassen

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