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Horticultural selection from Ceanothus gloriosus var. gloriosus in Mendocino County. An evergreen shrub groundcover, this is a very dense, low-growing and spreading selection with darker blue flowers than the species. It stays very neat and its long branches will drape nicely over boulders or retaining walls. Its flowers appear like blue cotton balls all along its elegant branches. Despite its north coast origins it has done superbly in our interior garden which gets very hot in summer and well below 2 F in winter. It has fast become our favorite groundcover lilac. It becomes alleopathic over time and will help to keep out weeds.
From seed collected in southern Mendocino County, CA by Roman Gankin and Andrew Lester at UC Davis; intro by Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, 1976. (Ref: Ceanothus, by Fross & Wilken)
Shrub
2 - 3 ft Tall
5 - 6 ft Wide
Evergreen
Blue
Spring
Groundcover
Partial Shade
Low, Moderate
Moderate