Arctostaphylos viscida

Sticky whiteleaf manzanita

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Sticky whiteleaf manzanita is a California native shrub found in mountain and foothill regions, typically growing at elevations between 500 to 1,500 meters in chaparral and conifer woodland habitats. Flowering from January to March, this plant produces white to pink urn-shaped flowers in dense, erect to pendulous clusters with distinctively glandular-sticky branches. Growing as an upright shrub 1 to 3 meters tall with smooth, reddish bark and stiff branching, it develops a distinctive architectural form with multiple stems. Its leaves are thick and leathery, 2 to 5 centimeters long, ovate to nearly round, with a white-glaucous surface that gives the plant its distinctive pale appearance and entire leaf margins. The fruit is a sticky, depressed-spheric drupe approximately 6 to 8 millimeters wide, characteristic of the manzanita genus.

California counties: Mendocino, Tulare, Kern, Tuolumne, Shasta, Sonoma, Merced, Siskiyou, El Dorado, Napa, Lake, Placer, Calaveras, Madera, Mariposa, Amador, Nevada, Fresno, San Benito, Colusa, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Trinity, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Riverside, Sierra, Yuba

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