Stems: ascending erect to nearly arborescent, not rooting at nodes; twigs brown, round, smooth, +/- puberulent, rigid.
Leaves: evergreen, alternate; not clustered; stipules thin, deciduous; petioles 3--18 mm; blades broadly-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2.3--13.0 x 1.3--6.0 cm, bases subcordate to rounded, evenly 3-veined, margins not revolute, finely glandular-serrate, tips obtuse, abaxially pale green, canescent to velvety or puberulent especially on veins or glabrous, adaxially shiny dark-green, glabrous, plane.
Inflorescences: axillary, panicle-like, 5.0--10.0 cm.
Flowers: white.
Fruits: subglobose to pyramidal, 3--4 mm broad, smooth or sticky or roughened, horns 0; valves minutely crested or 0.
1. Leaf blades abaxially canescent to velvety or puberulent especially on veins; fruits +/- smooth or slightly roughened, valves minutely crested or 0; inland: b. C. velutinus var. velutinus
C. velutinus D. Douglas ex W. J. Hooker var. laevigatus, (W. J. Hooker) J. Torrey & A. Gray
Stems: ascending erect to nearly arborescent, not rooting at nodes; twigs brown, round +/- puberulent, rigid.
Leaves: evergreen, alternate; stipules thin, deciduous; petioles 3--18 mm; blades broadly-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2.3--13.0 x 1.3--6.0 cm, bases subcordate to rounded, evenly 3-veined, margins finely glandular-serrate, tips obtuse, abaxially pale green, glabrous including veins, adaxially shiny dark-green, glabrous, plane.
Inflorescences: axillary, panicle-like, 5.0--10.0 cm.
Flowers: white.
Fruits: subglobose to pyramidal, strongly 3-lobed at summit, +/- roughened, 3--4 mm broad, horns 0; valves minutely crested.
Cytology: n = 12 (M. Nobs in H. McMinn, 1942)
Flowering: in early summer
Habitat: woods near coast; below 900 m.
Range: B.C.; Calif., Oreg., Wash.. View Distribution Map.
Stems: ascending-erect, crown rounded; twigs brown, in age darkening, round +/- puberulent, rigid.
Leaves: evergreen, alternate, aromatic; stipules thin, deciduous; petioles 3--18 mm; blades broadly-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2.3--13.0 x 1.3--6.0 cm, bases subcordate to rounded, evenly 3-veined, margins finely glandular-serrate, tips obtuse, abaxially pale green, canescent to velvety or puberulent especially on veins or glabrous, adaxially shiny dark-green, +/- varnished, glabrous, plane.
Inflorescences: axillary, panicle-like, 5.0--10.0 cm.
Flowers: white
Fruits: subglobose to pyramidal, strongly 3-lobed at summit, +/- smooth, 3-4 mm broad, horns 0; valves minutely crested or 0.
Cytology: n = 12 (M. Nobs in H. McMinn, 1942)
Flowering: in early summer.
Habitat: Inland woods; 1000-3000 m.
Range: B.C.; Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., S.Dak., Wyo. View Distribution Map.
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