''Adolphia'' is a genus of shrubs in the

buckthorn family The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...

containing only two species. These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes. ''

Adolphia californica ''Adolphia californica'', known by the common names California adolphia, California prickbush, and spineshrub, is a species of flowering shrub in the buckthorn family. Distribution The shrub is native to the coastal plains and Peninsular Ranges ...

'' , the ''California prickbush'' or ''California spineshrub'', are native to southern California and northern Mexico. '' Adolphia infesta'' , the ''junco'', is found in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. This genus is named for the French botanist Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876). It was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. on page 70 in 1837.

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Jepson Manual TreatmentUSDA Plants Profile
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