It is a good choice for a sunny woodland garden, near the back of a shrub bed, or next to a building. It is drought tolerant– ideal for drier areas of a landscape.
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Its creamy-white drooping flower clusters are spectacular in full bloom but are not as attractive when they turn brown later in the summer. In the Landscape: Oceanspray can add charm to a garden with its attractive, small, lobed leaves and graceful arching habit. It usually has several main stems with brownish peeling bark the ends of the branches arch gracefully outward. Seeds are actually wooly achenes (dry, one-seeded fruit) in tiny dry capsules.
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Its flowers are white to cream with lilac-like drooping clusters. The green, upper surface of the leaves can be smooth or coarsely-hairy the paler, under surface is strongly veined and soft-hairy. Habitat: Oceanspray grows on dry to moist, open forests or coastal bluffs and is common in open, disturbed areas, such as logged or burned areas and roadsides.ĭiagnostic Characters: Oceanspray can be recognized by its alternate, oval to triangular leaves with lobed or coarsely and doubly toothed margins.
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Besides being much shorter, the leaves are smaller and thicker. Oceanspray growing near the rim of Crater Lake look very different from those growing in a sheltered forest. Growth: Oceanspray can range from 2.5 feet (.75m) on harsh, cold and windy sites to 12-20 feet (4- 7m) in open coastal forests, but they more often grow 3-10 feet (1-3m). All U.S species are similar and are mostly only separated due to different leaf morphologies and distributions.
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Distribution of Ocean Spray from USDA Plants Databaseĭistribution: It is native from southern British Columbia to southern California, east to western Montana, Colorado and Arizona.