Ceanothus griseus var. horizontalis          Rhamnaceae

Carmel Creeper Ceanothus                see-a-NO-thus GRIS-e-us hor-i-zon-TA-lis

• Broadleaf evergreen ground cover, prostrate to low spreading, about 2 ft (0.6 m) tall and 5-15 ft (1.5-4.5 m) wide, may grow taller.  Leaves alternate, simple, ovate to round ovate, 1-5 cm, blunt apex, margin turned under and serrate, dark green and glabrous above, densely gray-hairy below.  Flower clusters light blue, 2.5 cm long.  Fruit subglobose, about 4 mm across, grandular-sticky when young, glossy black when ripe.
• Sun.  Good low-growing, low-maintenance woody ground cover.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 8      Native to coastal central California, well adapted to ocean bluffs.
• Oregon State Unvi., North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora.
• Silverton, Oregon: The Oregon Garden.