Arctostaphylos tomentosa

Woolly leaf manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Woolly leaf manzanita is a California native shrub found in coastal and mountain regions in chaparral and woodland habitats. Flowering from January to March, this plant produces pink to white urn-shaped flowers in pendant clusters with delicate branch structures. Growing erect to 1 to 3 meters tall with a prominent underground burl and distinctive gray bark that shreds with age, the manzanita develops a sculptural, multi-stemmed form. Its leaves are oblong-ovate, 2 to 5 centimeters long, dark green and somewhat shiny on the upper surface, with entire margins that are occasionally slightly toothed or cupped. The fruit is a depressed spherical drupe 6 to 10 millimeters wide, often covered in fine hairs and containing variably fused stone segments.

California counties: Santa Barbara, Monterey, Riverside, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Humboldt, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Clara, Alameda, Solano, Butte

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