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Shepherdia rotundifolia

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Elaeagnaceae

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Rosales

Genus
  
Shepherdia

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Similar
  
Shepherdia, Shepherdia canadensis, Amelanchier utahensis, Fraxinus anomala, Penstemon utahensis

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Shepherdia rotundifolia, the roundleaf buffaloberry or silverleaf, is a 3-to-6-foot (1-to-2-meter) evergreen shrub in the oleaster family (Elaeagnaceae) that grows only in the Colorado Plateau (endemic) of the southwestern United States. The common name comes from western settlers using the cooked berries in a sauce for eating cooked buffalo meat.

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Leaves and stems

"Rotundifolia" is for the oval or egg-shaped leaves, which can vary to being lance shaped. They are 14 to 1 12 inches (6 to 38 mm) long, silvery green on top (hence the other common name), and hairy and pale on the bottom.

Inflorescence and fruit

Flowers open from May to June and are yellowish. They are produces singly or in a cluster from leaf axils.

Fruits are elliptical, with star-shaped hairs.

Habitat and range

It grows in mixed desert shrub, pinyon juniper woodland, and ponderosa pine forest communities as high as 7,800 feet (2,400 m) elevations.

References

Shepherdia rotundifolia Wikipedia