''Adolphia'' is a genus of shrubs in the

buckthorn family The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae ...

containing only two species. These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes. ''

Adolphia californica ''Adolphia californica'', known by the common names California adolphia, California prickbush, and spineshrub, is a species of flowering shrub in the buckthorn family. Distribution and habitat The shrub is native to the coastal plains and Penin ...

'' , the ''California prickbush'' or ''California spineshrub'', are native to southern California and northern Mexico. ''

Adolphia infesta ''Adolphia'' is a genus of shrubs in the buckthorn family containing only two species. These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes. ''Adolphia californica'' , the ''California prickbush'' or ''California spineshrub'', are native to southern Califo ...

'' , the ''junco'', is found in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. This genus is named for the French botanist

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart () FRS FRSE FGS (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneerin ...

(1801–1876). It was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. on page 70 in 1837.

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Jepson Manual TreatmentUSDA Plants Profile
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