Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. cushingiana |
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Eastwood manzanita, Eastwood's manzanita |
Cushing manzanita, Cushing's manzanita |
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Habit | Shrubs, erect or mound-forming, 1–3 m; burl present; twigs tomentose to short-hairy, with eglandular hairs or with long, clear, pink or dark, glandular hairs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Twigs | sparsely short-hairy, not glandular-hairy. |
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Leaves | petiole 5–10 mm; blade bright green, slightly glaucous to strongly gray-glaucous, shiny or dull, elliptic to ovate, 2–4.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes ± lobed or truncate, margins entire or toothed, plane, surfaces papillate, scabrous or smooth, glabrous or glandular-puberulent to -hairy, puberulent, or finely tomentose, sometimes glabrescent; (abaxial surface sometimes with more stomata than adaxial surface). |
blades green or gray-green, base cuneate to rounded, surfaces smooth, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. |
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Inflorescences | panicles, 3–6-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded, not concealed by bracts), axis 1–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy to hairy, with or without glandular hairs; bracts not appressed, variable, from scalelike and awl-like to leaflike and deltate, lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate (at least at base), 3–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces hairy or finely glandular-hairy. |
immature inflorescence axis densely white-hairy; bracts densely white-hairy. |
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Pedicels | 3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy. |
densely white-hairy. |
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Flowers | corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular. |
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Ovaries | densely white-hairy. |
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Fruits | slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid). |
slightly flattened depressed-globose. |
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Stones | usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate. |
usually distinct. |
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Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. cushingiana |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–early spring. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Pure and mixed chaparral | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 300-1900 m (1000-6200 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; nw Mexico
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CA; Mexico (Baja California) |
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Discussion | Subspecies 10 (8 in the flora). Arctostaphylos glandulosa occurs in the California Floristic Province from southern Oregon to northern Baja California within the Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies cushingiana is widespread in mixed populations with subsp. glandulosa from Humboldt County in the North Coast Range south to the Peninsular Range, and extending into northern Baja California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 442. | FNA vol. 8, p. 444. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos > Arctostaphylos glandulosa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | A. cushingiana, A. glandulosa var. cushingiana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 82. 1897 , | (Eastwood) J. E. Keeley: Madroño 54: 59. (2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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