''Cercocarpus douglasii'', common name Klamath mountain mahogany, is a plant species native to northern
California
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and southwestern
Oregon
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''Cercocarpus douglasii'' is a tree up to 5 meters (17 feet) tall with rough, gray bark. Leaves are oblong to oblanceolate, up to 5 cm (2 inches) long, with rounded tips, green and hairless on the upper side but whitish with woolly hairs underneath. Flowers are borne in groups of 2 or 3 in the ]axils
A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, ste ...
of the leaves.[Rydberg, Per Axel, in Britton, Nathaniel Lord. 1913. North American Flora 22(5): 421.]
/ref>[Baldwin et al. 2012. Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, ed 2. University of California Press, Berkeley. ]
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douglasii
Flora of Oregon
Plants described in 1913
Flora of California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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