Our Plants (List)

The common manzanita grows as an open, upright shrub or tree with large oval leaves over burnt orange bark. It becomes the dominant large manzanita species in coastal mountains and western Sierra Nevada from about the latitude of Mt. Diablo up to the southern Cascades. The upright open form make…

The common manzanita is the prevalent large manzanita in the mountains of the northern half of the state. It also grows in a rather narrow band in the lower foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada. It naturally grows as a large shrub with burnt orange bark and olive green, oval…

The common manzanita grows throughout the inner coastal ranges north of the SF Bay, and in the lower foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, with a few scattered populations elsewhere (e.g. Santa Clara County). It is currently divided into six subspecies by taxonomists. The laevigatus subspecies is found in the…

The common manzanita is the prevalent tree-form manzanita species in the mountainous portions of counties north of Santa Clara County, especially along the coast. As one moves south of this imaginary line, the bigberry manzanita, Arctostaphylos glauca, takes over. This selection was taken from the slopes of Mount St. Helena…

The Presidio manzanita is a rare subspecies of the Mount Tamalpais manzanita of Marin County. The Presidio manzanita grows only in serpentine outcroppings in the Presidio of San Francisco. Only a single species is known to exist in the wild, its exact location a carefully kept secret. It must have…

Montara Mountain marks the northern limit of the Santa Cruz Mountains. From its peak one spies the Pacific Ocean on one side and the SF Bay on the other. At five hundred feet or so, the narrow range of the Montara manzanita begins. In this coastal chaparral, this rare manzanita…