Arctostaphylos nevadensis |
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pine mat manzanita |
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Habit | Shrubs, prostrate or mound-forming, 0.1–0.5 m; burl absent or basal, sometimes epicormic; twigs sparsely short-hairy. | ||||
Leaves | petiole 3–7 mm; blade bright green, shiny, obovate or oblanceolate, 1–3 × 1–1.5 cm, base cuneate, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, puberulent, glabrescent. |
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Inflorescences | racemes, simple or 1-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches congested, globose), axis 0.5–1 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy; bracts not appressed, (green), scalelike, linear or linear-lanceolate, mostly 2–3 mm (some near base leaflike, 5–10 mm), apex acuminate, mucronate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy, rarely finely glandular-hairy. |
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Pedicels | 3–5 mm, glabrous. |
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Flowers | corolla white, urceolate; ovary glabrous. |
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Fruits | (dark brown), globose, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
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Stones | distinct. |
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Arctostaphylos nevadensis |
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Distribution |
CA; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 435. | ||||
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | ||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2: 27. 1878 , | ||||
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