Arctostaphylos montana

Mt. tamalpais manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Mt. tamalpais manzanita is a California native shrub found in the San Francisco Bay Area and central coastal ranges in chaparral and woodland habitats. Flowering from January to March, this plant produces white to pink urn-shaped flowers in small pendant clusters. Growing with erect branches 1 to 3 meters tall, it develops from a distinctive underground burl that allows resprouting after fire. Its leaves are dark green and shiny, with rounded to wedge-shaped bases, growing 2 to 6 centimeters long and remaining entire and flat along the margins. The fruit is a small, spherical berry with variably fused stone structures.

California counties: Marin, Humboldt, Napa

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