Viburnum ellipticum, the common viburnum or oval-leaved viburnum, is a species of shrub in family Viburnaceae.
The shrub has deciduous leaves with oval or rounded blades 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 wide with five petals and five whiskery, white stamens. The fruit is a drupe about 1 cm long, red, blackening with age.
It is native to the western United States from Washington to central California, where it occurs in forests and mountain chaparral habitat.
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