Our Plants (List)

This is one of the many species of manzanita found growing near San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast. This is one of the manzanita “hot spots” where numerous species occur together in a small geographic area. An interesting element of these hot spots is that each species favors a…

This is one of the many species of manzanita found growing near San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast. This is one of the manzanita “hot spots” where numerous species occur together in a small geographic area. An interesting element of these hot spots is that each species favors a…

This is one of the many species of manzanita found growing near San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast. This is one of the manzanita “hot spots” where numerous species occur together in a small geographic area. An interesting element of these hot spots is that each species favors a…

Bishop manzanita is one of many species native to the mountain ranges of the Central Coast. It grows in the Santa Lucia Range from southern Monterey County through San Luis Obispo County. The form is upright, dense and rounded. with silver-gray foliage and white winter flowers. The leaf shape varies…

These plants were grown from cuttings taken from a plant purchased from Theodore Payne Foundation in 2021.

The Oso manzanita grows in the coastal mountains near San Luis Obispo on California’s central coast. This area supports quite a variety of manzanita species. The Oso manzanita grows as a rounded shrub with shiny leaves that are somewhat heart-shaped. New leaves have an attractive red margin. Like several other…

This rare manzanita grows on a few mountains in southern San Diego County, and possibly into Baja, Mexico. It is an unusually beautiful species. The leaves are silver-green due to a waxy coating and fine hairs, both of which facilitate water conservation. There is often a red margin when the…

‘Pacifi Mist’ is one of the most popular low-growing groundcover manzanita’s. It spreads rapidly as a dense mound of gray-green leaves and is tolerant of some summer water and full sun in hot inland areas. At Rancho Santa Ana, where this hybrid manzanita was discovered, summer temperatures often exceed 100F….