Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos stanfordiana |
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green-leaf manzanita |
Stanford's 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 prostrate to decumbent, mat- or mound-forming, 0.1–3 m; burl absent; twigs usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely short-hairy, hairs sometimes glandular. | ||||||||
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. |
petiole 4–12 mm; blade bright green, shiny or slightly glaucous, elliptic, oblong, or oblanceolate, 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 cm, base cuneate, (not clasping), margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous or, rarely, finely glandular-puberulent. |
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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, 3–5-branched; immature inflorescence ascendent, branches wide-spreading, often ascending to erect, axis 2–2.5 cm, to 1 mm diam., usually glabrous, sparsely hairy, or sometimes sparsely glandular-hairy; bracts tightly appressed, scalelike, ovate to deltate, 1–1.5 mm (± equaling buds), apex acuminate, surfaces usually sparsely hairy or sometimes sparsely glandular-hairy; (buds scattered along inflorescence axis, round, appearing as “beads”). |
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Pedicels | 2–7 mm, glabrous or white-hairy. |
5–10 mm, glabrous. |
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Flowers | corolla mostly pink, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous or white-hairy. |
corolla white to pink, urceolate; ovary glabrous. |
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Fruits | depressed-globose, sometimes subglobose, 7–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
subglobose, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
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Stones | distinct. |
distinct. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Arctostaphylos patula |
Arctostaphylos stanfordiana |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Mountain chaparral and forests | |||||||||
Elevation | 400-3000 m (1300-9800 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.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 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. 416. | FNA vol. 8. | ||||||||
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 , | Parry: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 493. 1887 , | ||||||||
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