Arctostaphylos confertiflora

Santa rosa island manzanita, Santa Rosa Island manzanita, Santa Rosa Island manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2 · Endangered

Santa rosa island manzanita is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native shrub found in northern Channel Islands on Santa Rosa Island in maritime chaparral and sandstone outcrops at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from February to March, this plant produces white to pink flowers in pendulous panicles with densely overlapping green bracts. Growing prostrate to mounded or erect, reaching 0.1 to 2 meters tall with densely hairy twigs that have both short nonglandular and long white glandular hairs. Its leaves are distinctive, with ovate to elliptic blades 4 to 6 centimeters long, light green, dull, and glandular-puberulent, featuring a wedge-shaped base and rounded or soft-pointed tip with cupped margins. The fruit is depressed-spheric, 8 to 11 millimeters wide, with stones that can be variably fused or free.

Habitat: Sandstone outcrops, maritime chaparral

Bloom period: Feb-Mar

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: n ChI (Santa Rosa Island).

California counties: Santa Barbara, San Francisco

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