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This large shrub is a show stopper when it is in bloom. Masses of small dark flowers honey the air on a warm spring day. Rounded, dark green leaves are small, thick and deeply impressed with veins giving the plant a textured appearance when it is out of bloom. Even though Ceanothus `Dark Star' is often rated as a Zone 9 plant, it has stood up to record cold winters in Portland with only minor damage.
Late spring. 6 ft. x 10 ft.
Dark Purple Blue flowers
Sun Zones 8, 9, 10, 11 |