| Scientific Name: | Ceanothus x delileanus 'Gloire de Versailles' |
| Common Name: | hybrid California lilac |
| Family Name: | Rhamnaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract butterflies, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Serrate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Blue, Violet, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves broad-oval, to 4-8cm long x 2-3cm wide, margin serrulate, petioles 6-9mm long; flowers scented, powder blue, in panicles 10-13cm long, Jun-Sept. Winter ID: 1-3 oblong pubescent buds per node, 2mm long; terminal clusters of floret buds. | |