Forestiera_pubescens Knowpia

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

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^{[citation needed]} 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]

References edit

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