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Arctostaphylos pallida
Eastw.
Family:
Ericaceae
Alameda County Manzanita,
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pallid manzanita
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FNA
Resources
V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, Jon E. Keeley in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Shrubs,
erect, 2-4 m; burl absent; twigs hairy.
Leaves:
petiole to 2 mm, (hairy); blade glaucous-green, dull, ovate or oblong-ovate, 2.5-4.5 × 2-3 cm, base auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous.
Inflorescences
panicles, 3-5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches compact, framed by bracts), axis 0.5-1 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy to hispid-hairy, usually eglandular; bracts not appressed, leaflike, widely lanceolate, 5-9 mm, apex acute, surfaces finely glandular-hairy.
Pedicels
8-12 mm, finely glandular-hairy.
Flowers:
corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary finely glandular-hairy.
Fruits
depressed-globose, 8-10 mm diam., glandular-hairy, (viscid).
Stones
distinct.
2
n
= 26.
Flowering winter-early spring. Maritime chaparral, gaps in open forests; of conservation concern; 200-400 m; Calif.
Arctostaphylos pallida
is found on shale barrens in the East Bay Hills, western Contra Costa County, overlooking San Francisco Bay.
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