Red Root (Ceanothus Americanus) is a shrub growing between 18-42 inches high, having many thin branches. Its root system is thick has fibrous root hairs close to the surface. Root systems may grow very large in the wild, to compensate after repeated exposures to wildfires. White flowers grow in clumpy inflorescences on lengthy, axillary peduncles. Fruits are dry, dehiscent, seed capsules.