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§1 Plant

Frangula californica (Eschsch.) A. Gray ssp. cuspidata (Greene) Kartesz & Gandhi

vernacular California buckthorn — subspecies · Rhamnaceae

USDA
FRCAC7
GBIF
3874817
Rank
subspecies
California buckthorn (Frangula californica ssp. cuspidata)
Platephotograph · AlisonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rhamnaceae Juss.
Genus
Frangula
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 11 counties across 1 state
Legend Native · 11 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 11 counties across 1 state.

California view state ↗ 11 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/FRCAC7 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3874817 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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