Genus
Cercocarpus (Mountain mahoganies)
Cercocarpus betuloides. Photo: (c) Steve Matson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Cercocarpus, commonly known as mountain mahogany, is a small genus of five or six species of nitrogen-fixing flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae. They are native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where they grow in chaparral and semidesert habitats and climates, often at high altitudes. Several are found in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.
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