Viburnum ellipticum
Conservation status
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Dipsacales
Family:	Adoxaceae
Genus:	Viburnum
Species:	V. ellipticum
Binomial name
Viburnum ellipticum Hook.
Synonyms[2]
Viburnum ellipticum var. macrocarpum Suksd.

Viburnum ellipticum, the common viburnum^[3] or oval-leaved viburnum, is a species of shrub in family Adoxaceae.

The shrub has deciduous leaves with oval or rounded blades 2 to 6 centimetres (3⁄4 to 2+1⁄4 in) long. The leaf blade usually has three main longitudinal veins and a shallowly toothed edge. The inflorescence is a flat-topped cyme of many unpleasant-smelling white flowers, each 6 to 8 millimetres (1⁄4 to 5⁄16 in) wide with five petals and five whiskery, white stamens.^[4] The fruit is a drupe about 1 cm long, red, blackening with age.^[4]

It is native to the western United States from Washington to central California, where it occurs in forests and mountain chaparral habitat.^[4]

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