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Roundleaf buffaloberry
Shepherdia rotundifolia
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.:97 The common name comes from western settlers using the cooked berries in a sauce for eating cooked buffalo meat.:97
From the article Shepherdia rotundifolia on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
It grows in mixed desert shrub, pinyon juniper woodland, and ponderosa pine forest communities as high as 7,800 feet (2,400 m) elevations.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat and range”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127534.