View source for Ceanothus microphyllus

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|accepted_name=Ceanothus microphyllus
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 154. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Sandflat ceanothus
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ceanothus serpyllifolius
|authority=Nuttall
}}
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Ceanothus;Ceanothus subg. Ceanothus;Ceanothus microphyllus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ceanothus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Ceanothus subg. Ceanothus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ceanothus microphyllus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 79, 80
|treatment_page=page 83
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> deciduous, 0.4–0.7 m. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, not rooting at nodes; branchlets reddish green or yellow-green, not thorn-tipped, round in cross section, flexible, usually puberulent, sometimes strigillose. <b>Leaves</b> often fascicled; petiole 0.5–1 mm; blade flat, elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 2–10 × 1–6 mm, base cuneate, margins entire or weakly denticulate distally, not wavy, teeth 5–9, apex rounded or obtuse, abaxial surface pale green, puberulent on veins, adaxial surface green, glabrous; pinnately veined or 3-veined from base (venation obscure). <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, umbel-like or ± racemelike, 1–3 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals, petals, and nectary white. <b>Capsules</b> 3–4.5 mm wide, lobed; valves smooth, not crested.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Sandy flats, shrublands, pine-oak woodlands.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|discussion=<p>Short-statured plants of <i>Ceanothus microphyllus</i> with ovate-elliptic leaves, evident venation, and racemelike inflorescences have been called C. serpyllifolius (M. Van Rensselaer and H. McMinn 1942; W. H. Duncan and J. T. Kartesz 1981). <i>Ceanothus</i> serpyllifolius is treated here as part of <i>C. microphyllus</i>, because of continuous variation in leaf size, shape, and inflorescence architecture. <i>Ceanothus</i> serpyllifolius also has been applied to small-leaved, short-statured plants of <i>C. americanus</i>, some of which may be hybrids between that species and <i>C. microphyllus</i> (N. C. Coile 1988).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ceanothus microphyllus
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Ceanothus serpyllifolius
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Sandy flats, shrublands, pine-oak woodlands.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Ceanothus
|subgenus=Ceanothus subg. Ceanothus
|species=Ceanothus microphyllus
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