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Arctostaphylos viridissima
Arctostaphylos viridissima
(Eastw.) McMinn
Family:
Ericaceae
White-Hair Manzanita
FNA
Resources
V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, Jon E. Keeley in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Shrubs,
erect, 1-4 m; burl absent; twigs short-hairy with longer, white hairs.
Leaves:
petiole 1-4 mm; blade dark green, shiny, narrowly ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-3.5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, base truncate to ± auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, puberulent, glabrescent.
Inflorescences
racemes, simple or 1-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches ± concealed by bracts), axis 1-1.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy with long, white hairs; bracts not appressed, (crowded), leaflike, lanceolate, 6-10 mm, apex acute, surfaces lightly hairy.
Pedicels
2-3 mm, sparsely hairy.
Flowers:
corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy.
Fruits
subglobose, 10-15 mm diam., sparsely hairy or glabrous.
Stones
distinct.
2
n
= 26.
Flowering winter-early spring. Island chaparral, open forests; of conservation concern; 100-600 m; Calif.
Arctostaphylos viridissima
is known from siliceous shale on the eastern part of Santa Cruz Island.
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