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Arctostaphylos mewukka
Merriam
Family:
Ericaceae
Indian Manzanita
FNA
Resources
V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, Jon E. Keeley in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Shrubs,
erect, 1-3 m; burl present or absent; twigs glabrous or slightly hairy and sparsely glandular.
Leaves:
petiole 6-15 mm; blade intensely gray- or white-glaucous, dull, orbiculate, orbiculate-ovate, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 3-7 × 2-7 cm, base rounded, margins entire, plane, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces smooth, glabrous
. Inflorescences
panicles, 2-7-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, axis 2-3 cm, 1+ mm diam., glabrous or slightly hairy, sometimes glandular; bracts tightly appressed, scalelike, deltate to linear-lanceolate, 3-6 mm, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces glabrous.
Pedicels
4-8 mm, glabrous.
Flowers:
corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous.
Fruits
(dark mahogany-brown), globose, 12-16 mm diam., glabrous.
Stones
distinct, sometimes connate.
Arctostaphylos mewukka
is found on the western slopes of the central and northern Sierra Nevada.
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