Arctostaphylos edmundsii

Little sur manzanita, Little Sur Manzanita, Little Sur manzanita, Little Sur manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Little sur manzanita is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native shrub found in central Coast Ranges in northwestern Monterey County on sandy terraces and maritime chaparral at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from November to December, this plant produces white to pink flowers in small panicles. Growing prostrate to mounded, with distinctive dark green and shiny elliptic leaves 1 to 2.5 centimeters long, it spreads low across the landscape with stems reaching 0.2 to 1.5 meters wide. Its leaves are dark green, elliptic to round-ovate, with truncate bases and abruptly soft-pointed tips, growing in a spreading pattern. The fruit is a nearly spherical berry approximately 6 to 8 millimeters wide, with stones that may be variably fused or free.

Habitat: Sandy terraces, bluffs, maritime chaparral

Bloom period: Nov-Dec

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: c CCo (nw Monterey Co.).

California counties: San Mateo, Monterey, Orange, San Francisco

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