Arctostaphylos parryana

Arctostaphylos parryana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Arctostaphylos
Species:
A. parryana
Binomial name
Arctostaphylos parryana
Lemmon

Arctostaphylos parryana, with the common name Parry manzanita,[1] is a species of manzanita.

Description

Arctostaphylos parryana is an erect manzanita, standing on red-barked stems and reaching up to two meters in height. The leaves are bright green, generally oval in shape and pointed. The small pink-tinted white flowers are borne in densely bunched inflorescences. The fruit is a rounded drupe which contains two or more seeds which have fused into one body.

Its 7 to 10 mm wide fruits[2] were a food of the Luiseño of Southern California.

Distribution

This shrub is endemic to California, where it grows in the western section of the Transverse Ranges, from coastal Santa Barbara County to the San Gabriel Mountains.[1]

This is a manzanita of chaparral and low-elevation coniferous forest ecosystems.

References

  1. ^ a b Conrad, C. Eugene (1987). Common Shrubs of Chaparral and Associated Ecosystems of Southern California. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. p. 19. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Arctostaphylos parryana". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. The University and Jepson Herbaria University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 22 June 2025.

See also


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.