Symphoricarpos mollis

Creeping snowberry, trip vine, Trip Vine

Family: Caprifoliaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Creeping snowberry is a California native shrub found in northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, central western California, southwestern California, and Modoc Plateau in open woodland places and on ridges and slopes at elevations of 9 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces pink flowers with red exteriors, bell-shaped and approximately 4 millimeters long, with delicate hairy interiors. Growing as a sprawling plant 15 to 60 centimeters tall, its branches often root and form swollen nodes, creating a distinctive spreading habit. Its small leaves measure 5 to 30 millimeters, with branches that can develop thickened root-crowns and older nodes. The fruit is round and approximately 8 millimeters in diameter, containing 2 to 4 millimeter seeds.

Habitat: Ridges, slopes, open places in woodland

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 9-3000 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, CW, SW, MP

California counties: Humboldt, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Kern, San Bernardino, Trinity, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Orange, Lake, Fresno, Ventura, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Tuolumne, Tulare, Butte, Madera, Modoc, San Benito, Sonoma, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Tehama, Plumas, Siskiyou, Alameda, El Dorado, Amador, Del Norte, Glenn, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Nevada, Shasta, Placer, Alpine, Contra Costa, Lassen, Mono, Sierra, Solano, Napa, Calaveras

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