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Photographer: Kenneth J. Sytsma
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Family Rhamnaceae
Ceanothus herbaceus Raf.
inland New Jersey tea, Jersey tea, prairie red-root
Ceanothus: from Greek keanothus, a name which was used for some spiny plant
herbaceus: herbaceous, not woody
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, up to 40" tall, bushy shrub |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted; inflorescence a short, rounded, branched cluster of closely spaced umbels from the ends of the new leafy shoots on stalks less than 2" long; blooms May-June |
| Leaf: | mostly oblong to elliptical, 3/4"- 2 1/3" and less than half as wide |
| Habitat: | dry; prairies; in sandy, rocky soil |
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