Arctostaphylos mewukka
Arctostaphylos patula
Indian manzanita
green-leaf manzanita
petiole 6–15 mm;
blade intensely gray- or white-glaucous, dull, orbiculate, orbiculate-ovate, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 3–7 × 2–7 cm, base rounded, margins entire, plane, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces smooth, glabrous.
petiole 7–15 mm;
blade bright green (lightly gray-green if short-hairy), shiny, widely ovate to orbiculate, 2.5–6 × 1.5–4 cm, base rounded, truncate, or slightly lobed, (not clasping), margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous or, rarely, short-hairy.
panicles, 2–7-branched;
immature inflorescence pendent, axis 2–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., glabrous or slightly hairy, sometimes glandular;
bracts tightly appressed, scalelike, deltate to linear-lanceolate, 3–6 mm, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces glabrous.
panicles, 2–8-branched;
immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading, axis 1.5–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., hairy with golden glands on tips of hairs or short-hairy and eglandular;
bracts appressed with incurved tips, scalelike, deltate, 4–6 mm, apex acuminate, surfaces usually densely tomentose with golden glands on tips of hairs, rarely short white-hairy and eglandular.
4–8 mm, glabrous.
2–7 mm, glabrous or white-hairy.
corolla white, conic to urceolate;
ovary glabrous.
corolla mostly pink, conic to urceolate;
ovary glabrous or white-hairy.
(dark mahogany-brown), globose, 12–16 mm diam., glabrous.
depressed-globose, sometimes subglobose, 7–10 mm diam., glabrous.
distinct, sometimes connate.
distinct.
= 26.
Arctostaphylos mewukka
Arctostaphylos patula
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Arctostaphylos mewukka is found on the western slopes of the central and northern Sierra Nevada.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Arctostaphylos patula is abundant and widespread in western North America as a dominant in montane chaparral, pine forest gaps, and high-elevation arid-steppe and canyon-land environments. Populations throughout western North America are characterized by twigs and inflorescence parts covered with relatively short hairs tipped with golden glands. In the central to northern Sierra Nevada, mixed with the widespread form are individuals that are eglandular and have a cover of relatively short, whitish hairs on the stems and inflorescences. Similarly, throughout most of its range, A. patula is nonsprouting after fire, and in areas characterized by winter snow cover it layers and creates broad, low mounds. In much of California, it typically sprouts after fires from obscure and flattened burls, forming circles of erect sprouts.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Burls present; leaf blades 2-4 cm wide, apex acute. | subsp. mewukka |
1. Burls absent; leaf blades 4-7 cm wide, apex obtuse. | subsp. truei |
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