Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos pajaroensis |
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green-leaf manzanita |
Pajaro 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, sometimes with long 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 2 mm; blade light green abaxially, dark blue-green, glaucous adaxially, dull, ovate to triangular-ovate, 2–4 × 1–2 cm, base distinctly lobed, auriculate-clasping, margins (tinged with red), entire, ± cupped, surfaces smooth, glabrous, midvein hairy abaxially. |
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 spreading, axis 1–1.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy, sometimes with long hairs; bracts not appressed, leaflike, linear-lanceolate, 5–10 mm, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous. |
Pedicels | 2–7 mm, glabrous or white-hairy. |
5–8 mm, finely hairy or glabrous. |
Flowers | corolla mostly pink, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous or white-hairy. |
corolla white to pink, urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy. |
Fruits | depressed-globose, sometimes subglobose, 7–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
depressed-globose, 6–8 mm diam., sparsely hairy or glabrous. |
Stones | distinct. |
distinct. |
2n | = 26. |
= 26. |
Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos pajaroensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering early winter–early spring. |
Habitat | Mountain chaparral and forests | Maritime chaparral on deep to shallow, sandy soils or sandstone outcroppings |
Elevation | 400-3000 m (1300-9800 ft) | 0-200 m (0-700 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 pajaroensis is found in the vicinity of the Pajaro Hills in Monterey 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 | A. andersonii var. pajaroensis |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 2: 171. 1891 , | (J. E. Adams) J. E. Adams: J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 56: 41. 1940 , |
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