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Mountain snowberry

Symphoricarpos oreophilus

Also called Whortleleaf Snowberry

Mountain snowberry
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Nevada to W. Texas
Climate
temperate

About

Symphoricarpos oreophilus is a North American species of flowering plant in the Caprifoliaceae, or honeysuckle family, known by the common name mountain snowberry.

Where it grows

Symphoricarpos oreophilus has a wide distribution in western Canada, the United States, and northwestern Mexico. It is found in mountainous areas such as the Cascades, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies, and the Sierra Madre Occidental from British Columbia to the Copper Canyon region of Chihuahua, from the coastal states as far inland as the Black Hills, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and trans-Pecos Texas.

Other Symphoricarpos plants

Sharpleaf snowberry · Common snowberry · McKittrick's snowberry · Symphoricarpos guatemalensis · Trailing snowberry · Desert snowberry · Pink snowberry · Creeping snowberry · Western snowberry · Coralberry · Palmer's snowberry · Symphoricarpos parishii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symphoricarpos oreophilus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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