Arctostaphylos stanfordiana

Stanford's manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Stanford's manzanita is a California native shrub found in chaparral and woodland habitats at moderate elevations. Flowering from February to April, this plant produces pink to white urn-shaped flowers in delicate panicle clusters. Growing with distinctive reddish-brown bark and erect branches 1 to 2 meters tall, it forms an elegant woodland specimen. Its bright green to slightly bluish-green leaves are elliptic to oblanceolate, measuring 3 to 5 centimeters long with smooth edges and a wedge-shaped base. The fruit develops as a smooth, depressed-spheric structure approximately 6 to 8 millimeters wide.

California counties: Mendocino, Lake, Del Norte, Napa, Humboldt, Sonoma, Madera, San Francisco, Lassen, Colusa, Trinity, Tehama, Los Angeles

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