Arctostaphylos purissima |
Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
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La Purisima manzanita, La Purissima manzanita |
Eastwood manzanita, Eastwood's manzanita |
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Habit | Shrubs, erect, 1–4 m; burl absent; twigs densely short-hairy with longer hairs. | 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 to 2 mm; blade bright green, shiny, orbiculate-ovate to ± orbiculate, 1–2.5 × 1–2 cm, base auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous. |
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). |
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Inflorescences | racemes, simple or 1–2-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches dense, concealed by bracts), axis 0.5–1 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with longer hairs; bracts not appressed, (overlapping), leaflike, ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 5–8 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
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. |
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Pedicels | 3–5 mm, sparsely hairy or glabrous. |
3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy. |
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Flowers | corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous. |
corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular. |
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Fruits | depressed-globose, 5–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid). |
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Stones | distinct. |
usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Arctostaphylos purissima |
Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–early spring. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Maritime chaparral on deep, sandy soils | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Arctostaphylos purissima is known from hills and mesas near the coast (Burton Mesa) in Santa Barbara County. (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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 434. | FNA vol. 8, p. 442. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | P. V. Wells: Madroño 19: 195. 1968 , | Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 82. 1897 , | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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