Arctostaphylos malloryi

Mallory's manzanita, Mallory's manzanita, Mallory's manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Mallory's manzanita is a rare (CNPS 4.3) California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges and northern interior Coast Ranges in Sonoma, Colusa, Shasta, and Trinity counties, growing in volcanic soils within interior chaparral at elevations of 650 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from February to April, this plant produces light pink to white flowers in pendulous, glandular-hairy panicles. Growing as an erect shrub 1 to 3 meters tall with distinctively grayish-white twigs, it forms a dense, upright structure with smooth, reddish bark. Its leaves are rounded to ovate, 2 to 3 centimeters long, glaucous and white-tomentose when young, becoming glabrous with age, with a rounded or truncate base and entire margins. The fruit is a depressed-spheric drupe 7 to 9 millimeters wide, with stones that may be variably fused or free.

Habitat: Volcanic soils, interior chaparral

Bloom period: Feb-Apr

Elevation: 650-1200 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRI (Sonoma, Colusa, Shasta, Trinity cos.).

California counties: Shasta, Colusa, Mendocino, Trinity

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