''Cercocarpus douglasii'', common name Klamath mountain mahogany, is a plant species native to northern

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...

and southwestern

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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 {{Rosaceae-stub