ceanothus
noun
ce·a·no·thus
ˌsē-ə-ˈnō-thəs 
: any of a genus (Ceanothus) of American vines, shrubs, and small trees of the buckthorn family having the calyx disk adherent to the ovary
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Her recommendations include multiple buckwheats, including California buckwheat and Yankee Point ceanothus, an evergreen groundcover that has beautiful spring flowers.
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
There’s a California lilac — not the true syringa lilac of rhapsodic song and poetry but a ceanothus.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
Aside from poppies, bush sunflowers, wooly blue curls, lupine, black sage, ceanothus and other plants are popping along trails in the Santa Monica Mountains.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
Late summer brought a squadron of swallowtail butterflies that seemed to prefer feeding on the leathery leaves of ceanothus while nearby the busy skipper butterflies focused on clusters of wildflowers closer to the ground.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
This sale features drought-tolerant Southwestern, California native and Australian plants — including ceanothus, tecoma, manzanita and westringia — as well as cactuses, succulents, tomato and vegetable seedlings, fruit trees and herbs.
—Jeanette Marantos, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
There’s a California lilac — not the true syringa lilac of rhapsodic song and poetry but a ceanothus.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
Aside from poppies, bush sunflowers, wooly blue curls, lupine, black sage, ceanothus and other plants are popping along trails in the Santa Monica Mountains.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
Late summer brought a squadron of swallowtail butterflies that seemed to prefer feeding on the leathery leaves of ceanothus while nearby the busy skipper butterflies focused on clusters of wildflowers closer to the ground.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
This sale features drought-tolerant Southwestern, California native and Australian plants — including ceanothus, tecoma, manzanita and westringia — as well as cactuses, succulents, tomato and vegetable seedlings, fruit trees and herbs.
—Jeanette Marantos, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
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“Ceanothus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ceanothus. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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