Cotoneaster microphyllus
Common name: 
Littleleaf Cotoneaster
Pronunciation: 
ko-toe-nee-AS-ter mi-kro-FIL-us
Family: 
Rosaceae
Genus: 
Cotoneaster
Type: 
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: 
No
  • Evergreen ground cover/shrub, 1-3 ft (30-90 cm).  Densely branched, creeping, slender and rooting stems, and upright secondary branches.   Leaves only 1.5 cm , oval, rounded to emarginate at apex, margins tend to curl downward, dark green above and woolly beneath.  White flowers (6 mm diam.) solitary, rosy-red fruit crowded along stems.
  • Sun to part shade.  Adaptable, needs little or no maintenance.  Sometimes known as Rockspray Cotoneaster, a name also applied to C. horizontalis.
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 5     Native to the Himalayas
  • microphyllus: small (micro) leaves (phyllus)
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  • tiny-leafed cultivar

    tiny-leafed cultivar