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|accepted_name=Hydrangea cinerea
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=25: 148. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|common_names=Ashy hydrangea
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hydrangea arborescens var. deamii
|authority=H. St. John
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=H. arborescens subsp. discolor
|authority=(Seringe) E. M. McClintock
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=H. arborescens var. discolor
|authority=Seringe
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Hydrangeaceae;Hydrangea;Hydrangea cinerea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydrangeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hydrangea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hydrangea cinerea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 488
|treatment_page=page 487
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 10–30 dm. <b>Twigs</b> sparsely hirsute to pilose, trichomes white. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; petiole 0.8–8.6 cm, sparsely to densely hirsute abaxially, densely hirsute adaxially; blade ovate, elliptic-ovate, or broadly ovate, (2.5–)4.2–14.9 × (1.7–)2.1–12 cm, unlobed, base cordate, truncate, or cuneate, margins dentate to serrate, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface grayish, uniformly velutinous, pilose, or tomentose, trichomes at 40× conspicuously tuberculate, 0.3–1 mm, adaxial surface green, sparsely hirsute. <b>Inflorescences</b> compact, 150–500-flowered, dome-shaped to hemispheric, 3.5–14.5 × 3–16.5 cm; peduncle 0.5–6 cm, sparsely to densely tomentose. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.8–2.8 mm, glabrous or sparsely to densely hirsute. <b>Sterile</b> flowers absent or present, white or greenish white, tube 4–21 mm, lobes 3–4(–5), obovate to broadly ovate, round, or elliptic, 6.5–15 × 2.5–14 mm. <b>Bisexual</b> flowers: hypanthium usually adnate to ovary to near its apex, rarely ca. 2/3 up ovary, 0.7–1 × 0.8–1.2 mm, strongly 8–10-ribbed in fruit, glabrous; sepals deltate to triangular, 0.3–0.5 × 0.3–0.6 mm, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous; petals caducous, white to yellowish white, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 1.2–1.5 × 0.7–1.1 mm; filaments 1.8–4.5 × 0.1–0.2 mm; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; pistils 2(–3)-carpellate, ovary completely inferior or nearly so; styles 2(–3), distinct, 0.8–1.1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> hemispheric, (1.2–)1.5–2.3 × (1.2–)2–2.8 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.3–0.6(–0.8) mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Deciduous upland and bottomland forests, shaded cliffs, ravines, streambeds.
|elevation=100–700 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Mass.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p><i>Hydrangea cinerea</i> has escaped from cultivation in Massachusetts.</p><!--
--><p>The Cherokee used infusions of bark or roots as antiemetics, emetics, and cathartics, and as gynecological and liver aids (D. E. Moerman 1998).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Hydrangea cinerea
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hydrangea arborescens var. deamii;H. arborescens subsp. discolor;H. arborescens var. discolor
|basionyms=
|family=Hydrangeaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Deciduous upland and bottomland forests, shaded cliffs, ravines, streambeds.
|elevation=100–700 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Mass.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1898
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_302.xml
|genus=Hydrangea
|species=Hydrangea cinerea
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