Arctostaphylos canescens

Hoary manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Hoary manzanita is a native shrub found in California mountain ranges in chaparral and forest habitats. Flowering from January to March, this plant produces white to pink urn-shaped flowers in delicate pendulous clusters. Growing erectly to 3 meters tall with distinctively white-gray twigs covered in soft tomentose hair, it forms a striking architectural shrub. Its leaves are rounded to ovate, 2 to 5 centimeters long with a soft gray appearance, featuring entire margins and rounded to wedge-shaped bases. The fruit is a depressed spherical structure 5 to 10 millimeters wide, characteristic of manzanita species.

California counties: Humboldt, Mendocino, Los Angeles, Glenn, Tehama, Plumas, Sonoma, Marin, Lake, Trinity, Del Norte, Kern, Shasta, Santa Cruz, Napa, Monterey, Solano, Colusa, Santa Clara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.