Ceanothus americanusL.

New Jersey tea

WFO wfo-0000591761 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205626639
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. b Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205175032
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. c Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202608062
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by NC Moth Project
fig. d NC Moth Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204255276
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. e Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193230409
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Lauren McLaurin
fig. f Lauren McLaurin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196369564
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. g Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179767770
Ceanothus americanus, photographed by Carol Ann McCormick
fig. h Carol Ann McCormick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201725900

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Flowering n = 1,392 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,392 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 28 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ceanothus americanus var. americanus
  • Ceanothus americanus var. glaber Alph.Wood
  • Ceanothus americanus var. intermedius (Pursh) Torr. & A.Gray
  • Ceanothus americanus var. pitcheri Torr. & A.Gray
  • Ceanothus decumbens Steud.
  • Ceanothus dillenianus hort. ex K.Koch
  • Ceanothus ellipticus Raf.
  • Ceanothus glomeratus Raf.
  • Ceanothus hybridus hort. ex K.Koch
  • Ceanothus intermedius Pursh
  • Ceanothus latifolius Raf.
  • Ceanothus levigatus Raf.
  • Ceanothus macrocarpus hort. ex Steud.
  • Ceanothus macrophyllus Desf.
  • Ceanothus macrophyllus hort. ex Dippel
  • Ceanothus milleri Tausch
  • Ceanothus multiflorus hort. ex Dippel
  • Ceanothus officinalis Raf.
  • Ceanothus ovalifolius Wender.
  • Ceanothus ovalis var. intermedius (Pursh) Torr.
  • Ceanothus perennis Pursh
  • Ceanothus pitcheri Pickering ex Torr. & A.Gray
  • Ceanothus procumbens hort. ex K.Koch
  • Ceanothus reclinatus Bosc ex Steud.

and 4 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.