Forestiera pubescens

Forestiera pubescens, commonly known as stretchberry,[2] desert olive, tanglewood, devil's elbow, elbow bush, spring goldenglow, spring herald, New Mexico privet, or Texas forsythia is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California) and northern Mexico.[1][3][4]

Forestiera pubescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Forestiera
Species:
F. pubescens
Binomial name
Forestiera pubescens
Synonyms[1]
  • Forestiera ligustrina var. pubescens (Nutt.) A.Gray
  • Adelia pubescens (Nutt.) Kuntze

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Forestiera pubescens
  2. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Forestiera pubescens". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  3. Biota of North America Program, Forestiera pubescens
  4. Nuttall, Thomas. 1837. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 5(6[2]): 177, Forestiera pubescens
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