Arctostaphylos imbricata

San bruno mountain manzanita, San Bruno Mountain Manzanita, San Bruno Mountain manzanita, San Bruno Mountain manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.1

San bruno mountain manzanita is a rare (CNPS 1B.1) California native shrub found in the Central Coast bioregion on San Bruno Mountain in sandstone outcrops and chaparral at elevations of 200 to 400 meters. Flowering from January to March, this plant produces pink to white flowers in small, pendulous panicles. Growing as a low, prostrate shrub 10 to 100 centimeters tall with densely glandular-hairy twigs, it forms a distinctive ground-hugging form. Its leaves are overlapping, round to round-ovate, light green, 2.5 to 4 centimeters long with lobed bases that clasp the stem and entire, flat margins. The fruit is a sticky, glandular-hairy drupe 6 to 7 millimeters wide with variably fused stones.

Habitat: Sandstone outcrops, chaparral

Bloom period: Jan-Mar

Elevation: 200-400 m

Bioregions: CCo (San Bruno Mtn).

California counties: San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Alameda, 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.