Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos morroensis |
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green-leaf manzanita |
Morro 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, erect or mound-forming, 1–4 m; burl absent; bark on older stems persistent, gray, shredded; twigs short-hairy with long, white 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 2–5 mm; blade dull gray abaxially, dark green, ± shiny adaxially, oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 1.5–3 × 1–2 cm, base subcordate to ± truncate (sometimes with vestigial auricles), margins entire, cupped, abaxial surface smooth, densely tomentose, adaxial surface 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, 2–5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches congested, bell-shaped, partly framed by bracts), axis 0.5–0.8 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy with long, white hairs; bracts not appressed, leaflike, linear-lanceolate, 5–8 mm, apex acuminate, surfaces puberulent. |
Pedicels | 2–7 mm, glabrous or white-hairy. |
4–6 mm, hairy or glabrous. |
Flowers | corolla mostly pink, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous or white-hairy. |
corolla white, urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy. |
Fruits | depressed-globose, sometimes subglobose, 7–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
depressed-globose, 7–10 mm diam., sparsely hairy. |
Stones | distinct. |
distinct. |
2n | = 26. |
= 26. |
Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos morroensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering winter–early spring. |
Habitat | Mountain chaparral and forests | Maritime chaparral on sandy soils near coast |
Elevation | 400-3000 m (1300-9800 ft) | 0-100 m (0-300 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 morroensis is known from the Morro Bay region in San Luis Obispo County. (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 , | Wieslander & B. Schreiber: Madroño 5: 42, fig. 2a. 1939 , |
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