Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos andersonii |
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green-leaf manzanita |
Anderson's manzanita, Santa Cruz manzanita |
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Habit | Shrubs, erect or mound-forming, 1–3 m; burl usually absent, sometimes flat, obscure; twigs usually densely short-hairy with golden glands on tips of hairs, rarely short white-hairy and eglandular. | Shrubs or trees, erect, (arborescent), 2–5 m; burl absent; twigs densely short-hairy with long, white, gland-tipped hairs. |
Leaves | 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. |
bifacial in stomatal distribution; petiole to 4 mm; blade bright green, dull, oblong, 4–7 × 1.5–2.5 cm, base auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 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. |
panicles, 4–6-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading, axis 2–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with long, white, gland-tipped hairs; bracts not appressed, leaflike, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, apex acute, surfaces short-hairy with long, gland-tipped hairs. |
Pedicels | 2–7 mm, glabrous or white-hairy. |
6–8 mm, finely glandular-hairy. |
Flowers | corolla mostly pink, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous or white-hairy. |
corolla white, conic; ovary finely glandular-hairy. |
Fruits | depressed-globose, sometimes subglobose, 7–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
depressed-globose, 6–8 mm diam., finely glandular-hairy, (viscid). |
Stones | distinct. |
distinct. |
2n | = 26. |
= 26. |
Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos andersonii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering winter–early spring. |
Habitat | Mountain chaparral and forests | Chaparral, edges of open forests |
Elevation | 400-3000 m (1300-9800 ft) | 300-900 m (1000-3000 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA
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Discussion | 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.) |
Of conservation concern. Arctostaphylos andersonii is known from the central and southern Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 416. | FNA vol. 8, p. 432. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos |
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Synonyms | A. acutifolia, A. parryana var. pinetorum, A. patula var. coalescens, A. patula subsp. platyphylla, A. platyphylla | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 2: 171. 1891 , | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 83. 1876 , |
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