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Pringle manzanita, yellowleaf manzanita

Eastwood manzanita, Eastwood's manzanita

Habit Shrubs, erect, 1–5 m; burl absent; twigs densely short glandular-hairy. Shrubs, erect or mound-forming, 1–3 m; burl present; twigs tomentose to short-hairy, with eglandular hairs or with long, clear, pink or dark, glandular hairs.
Leaves

petiole 5–10 mm;

blade gray-glaucous, dull, elliptic, ovate, or ± orbiculate, 2–5 × 1–4 cm, base rounded, truncate, or ± lobed, margins entire, plane, surfaces papillate, scabrous, finely glandular-hairy.

petiole 5–10 mm;

blade bright green, slightly glaucous to strongly gray-glaucous, shiny or dull, elliptic to ovate, 2–4.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes ± lobed or truncate, margins entire or toothed, plane, surfaces papillate, scabrous or smooth, glabrous or glandular-puberulent to -hairy, puberulent, or finely tomentose, sometimes glabrescent; (abaxial surface sometimes with more stomata than adaxial surface).

Inflorescences

racemes, simple or 1-branched;

immature inflorescence (developing late), pendent or erect, (concealed by bracts), axis 1–1.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short glandular-hairy;

bracts deciduous after flowering, (crowded), appressed, (bright pink), leaflike, lanceolate, 6–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces densely glandular-hairy.

panicles, 3–6-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded, not concealed by bracts), axis 1–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy to hairy, with or without glandular hairs;

bracts not appressed, variable, from scalelike and awl-like to leaflike and deltate, lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate (at least at base), 3–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces hairy or finely glandular-hairy.

Pedicels

5–15 mm, finely glandular-hairy.

3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy.

Flowers

corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate;

ovary glandular-hairy.

corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate;

ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular.

Fruits

globose, 6–12 mm diam., finely glandular-hairy, (viscid).

slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid).

Stones

distinct or connate.

usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate.

Arctostaphylos pringlei

Arctostaphylos glandulosa

Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA; OR; nw Mexico
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 10 (8 in the flora).

Arctostaphylos glandulosa occurs in the California Floristic Province from southern Oregon to northern Baja California within the Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Stones distinct.
subsp. pringlei
1. Stones connate into single sphere.
subsp. drupacea
1. Twigs, bracts, and/or immature inflorescence axes glandular-hairy
→ 2
1. Twigs, bracts, and immature inflorescence axes not glandular-hairy
→ 4
2. Leaf blades strongly white-glaucous.
subsp. leucophylla
2. Leaf blades green to gray-green, not glaucous to moderately glaucous
→ 3
3. Twigs glandular-hairy; immature inflorescences usually glandular-hairy.
subsp. glandulosa
3. Twigs not glandular-hairy; immature inflorescences glandular-hairy; (interior and eastern side of Santa Lucia Mountains).
subsp. howellii
4. Twigs short-hairy and with longer, white hairs.
subsp. mollis
4. Twigs short-hairy, not glandular-hairy
→ 5
5. Leaf blades strongly white-glaucous.
subsp. adamsii
5. Leaf blades dark green to moderately gray-green
→ 6
6. Stones mostly connate into single or weakly connate sphere.
subsp. gabrielensis
6. Stones usually distinct
→ 7
7. Leaf blades dark green (margins often reddish); fruits markedly flattened into depressed-globose shape.
subsp. crassifolia
7. Leaf blades green or gray-green; fruits only slightly flattened into depressed-globose shape.
subsp. cushingiana
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 427. FNA vol. 8, p. 442.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos
Sibling taxa
A. andersonii, A. auriculata, A. bakeri, A. canescens, A. catalinae, A. columbiana, A. confertiflora, A. crustacea, A. cruzensis, A. densiflora, A. edmundsii, A. franciscana, A. gabilanensis, A. glandulosa, A. glauca, A. glutinosa, A. hispidula, A. hookeri, A. hooveri, A. imbricata, A. insularis, A. klamathensis, A. luciana, A. malloryi, A. manzanita, A. mewukka, A. montana, A. montaraensis, A. montereyensis, A. morroensis, A. myrtifolia, A. nevadensis, A. nissenana, A. nortensis, A. nummularia, A. obispoensis, A. ohloneana, A. osoensis, A. otayensis, A. pacifica, A. pajaroensis, A. pallida, A. parryana, A. patula, A. pechoensis, A. pilosula, A. pumila, A. pungens, A. purissima, A. rainbowensis, A. refugioensis, A. regismontana, A. rudis, A. sensitiva, A. silvicola, A. stanfordiana, A. tomentosa, A. uva-ursi, A. virgata, A. viridissima, A. viscida
A. andersonii, A. auriculata, A. bakeri, A. canescens, A. catalinae, A. columbiana, A. confertiflora, A. crustacea, A. cruzensis, A. densiflora, A. edmundsii, A. franciscana, A. gabilanensis, A. glauca, A. glutinosa, A. hispidula, A. hookeri, A. hooveri, A. imbricata, A. insularis, A. klamathensis, A. luciana, A. malloryi, A. manzanita, A. mewukka, A. montana, A. montaraensis, A. montereyensis, A. morroensis, A. myrtifolia, A. nevadensis, A. nissenana, A. nortensis, A. nummularia, A. obispoensis, A. ohloneana, A. osoensis, A. otayensis, A. pacifica, A. pajaroensis, A. pallida, A. parryana, A. patula, A. pechoensis, A. pilosula, A. pringlei, A. pumila, A. pungens, A. purissima, A. rainbowensis, A. refugioensis, A. regismontana, A. rudis, A. sensitiva, A. silvicola, A. stanfordiana, A. tomentosa, A. uva-ursi, A. virgata, A. viridissima, A. viscida
Subordinate taxa
A. pringlei subsp. drupacea, A. pringlei subsp. pringlei
A. glandulosa subsp. adamsii, A. glandulosa subsp. crassifolia, A. glandulosa subsp. cushingiana, A. glandulosa subsp. gabrielensis, A. glandulosa subsp. glandulosa, A. glandulosa subsp. howellii, A. glandulosa subsp. leucophylla, A. glandulosa subsp. mollis
Name authority Parry: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 494. 1887 , Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 82. 1897 ,
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