Forestiera pubescens

{{Short description|Plant species in the olive family}}

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| image = Forestiera pubescens 2.jpg

| status = {{TNCStatus}}

| status_system = TNC

| status_ref = {{Cite NatureServe |date=4 April 2025 |id=2.144055 |title=Forestiera pubescens |access-date=23 April 2025}}

| genus = Forestiera

| species = pubescens

| authority = Nutt.

| subdivision_ranks = Varieties

| subdivision_ref = {{cite POWO |id=608873-1 |title=Forestiera pubescens Nutt. |access-date=23 April 2025}}

| subdivision = {{Species list |abbreviated=yes

| Forestiera pubescens var. parvifolia |

| Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens |

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| synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=60453275-2 |title=Forestiera pubescens var. parvifolia (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom |access-date=23 April 2025}}{{cite POWO |id=77171761-1 |title=Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens |access-date=23 April 2025}}

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| Adelia neomexicana | (A.Gray) Kuntze

| Adelia parvifolia | (A.Gray) Small

| Adelia pubescens | (Nutt.) Kuntze

| Adelia sphaerocarpa | (Torr.) Kuntze

| Forestiera acuminata var. parvifolia | A.Gray

| Forestiera arizonica | (A.Gray) Rydb.

| Forestiera ligustrina var. pubescens | (Nutt.) A.Gray

| Forestiera neomexicana | A.Gray

| Forestiera sphaerocarpa | Torr.

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Forestiera pubescens, commonly known as stretchberry,{{PLANTS|id=FOPU2|taxon=Forestiera pubescens|accessdate=23 February 2017}} desert olive, tanglewood, devil's elbow, elbow bush, spring goldenglow, spring herald, New Mexico privet, or Texas forsythia{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California) and northern Mexico.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=369382 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Forestiera pubescens][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Forestiera%20pubescens.png Biota of North America Program, Forestiera pubescens][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957882#page/199/mode/1up Nuttall, Thomas. 1837. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 5(6[2]): 177, Forestiera pubescens]