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Shepherdia rotundifolia
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Shepherdia rotundifolia, the roundleaf buffaloberry or silverleaf, is a 3-to-6-foot (1-to-2-meter) evergreen shrub in the oleaster family (Elaeagnaceae) that grows only in the Colorado Plateau (endemic) of the southwestern United States. The common name comes from western settlers using the cooked berries in a sauce for eating cooked buffalo meat.
- Family
- Elaeagnaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Shepherdia rotundifolia
- Slug
- shepherdia-rotundifolia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Elaeagnaceae
- Genus
- Shepherdia
- Species
- rotundifolia
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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