California Gardening: Daily Walks 4, 1 by Kelli

Kelli wrote:
My field guide says that C. spinosus has flower colors that range from white to blue. We seem to have the full range down here but there were none of the darker blues where we were yesterday. The plants have the green stems like C. spinosus, also. C. megacarpus has larger individual flowers but smaller clusters and they have no tint of blue at all, except that the centers are a dark purple/blue. Megacarpus is just about done blooming around here and spinosus is getting started. I think we have 5 or 6 ceanothus species around here, but most are megacarpus and spinosus.

I have the worst time getting a picture of these that is not washed out, but here is one that shows more blue.