Ceanothus pauciflorus

Shrubs, 0.2–2 m, sometimes moundlike. Stems erect or weakly ascending to spreading, not rooting at nodes; branchlets light gray to ashy gray, rigid, puberulent to tomentulose, hairs curly or wavy, glabrescent. Leaves not fascicled; petiole (0–)1–3 mm; blade flat to ± cupped, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 5–15(–20) × 3–14(–15) mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins thick, not revolute, entire or remotely denticulate, teeth 1–5(–7), apex acute to ± truncate, abaxial surface pale green to grayish green, glabrate or puberulent, hairs curly or wavy, glabrescent, adaxial surface grayish green, puberulent, hairs curly or wavy, glabrescent. Inflorescences axillary, rarely racemelike, 0.7–3 cm. Flowers: sepals and petals white to cream, sometimes pale blue or lavender; nectary yellowish green, brown, or blue. Capsules 3.5–6 mm wide, not, or sometimes weakly, lobed; valves smooth, horns lateral, prominent to minute or absent, spreading, intermediate ridges absent.