Arctostaphylos hookeri

Hooker's manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Hooker's manzanita is a California native shrub found in coastal and coastal mountain ranges in mixed evergreen and chaparral habitats. Flowering from January to March, this plant produces white to pink urn-shaped flowers in small, drooping clusters. Growing with distinctive smooth, reddish-brown bark and erect branches 1 to 3 meters tall, it develops a complex, twisting growth form. Its leaves are bright green, shiny, and somewhat leathery, with acute tips and entire margins that become increasingly glabrous as they mature. The fruit is a small, spherical drupe approximately 3 to 8 millimeters wide with variably fused stones.

California counties: Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Del Norte, Orange, San Francisco, Alameda, Yolo, Marin

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