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Shepherdia
rotundifolia
(Round Leaf Buffaloberry) Elaeagnaceae (Oleaster Family) Semi-desert. Shrublands, woodlands, openings.
Spring. In the photograph above, a four by four foot Buffaloberry enjoys the view south into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico from the side of the Moki Dugway Road, eleven hundred feet above the San Juan River basin.
At left a Roundleaf Buffaloberry shrub flowers early in the spring. |
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Shepherdia
rotundifolia
(Round Leaf Buffaloberry) Elaeagnaceae (Oleaster Family) Semi-desert. Shrublands, woodlands, openings.
Spring. Roundleaf Buffaloberry is a large, conspicuous shrub with innumerable tightly packed clusters of attractive rounded ("rotund") silver/blue/green, warty leaves which tend to cup inward from the sides and downward from the tip. Branch-ends in older shrubs often become so heavy that they cascade to the ground or flow over cliff faces. Roundleaf Buffaloberry produces a profusion of tiny yellow flowers followed by mildly tasty, edible berries that were supposedly made into a sauce for Buffalo meat. Ripening berries are in the middle of the photograph. In 1875 Charles Parry named this species which was collected in 1873 by A. L. Siler in Utah. |
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Shepherdia
rotundifolia
(Round Leaf Buffaloberry) Elaeagnaceae (Oleaster Family) Semi-desert. Shrublands, woodlands, openings.
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Range map © John Kartesz,
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Range map for Shepherdia rotundifolia |
Species present in state and native
Species present in state and exotic
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