Arctostaphylos stanfordiana

Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Copyright: Flora of North America Association

Shrubs, erect or prostrate to decumbent, mat- or mound-forming, 0.1–3 m; burl absent; twigs usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely short-hairy, hairs sometimes glandular. Leaves: petiole 4–12 mm; blade bright green, shiny or slightly glaucous, elliptic, oblong, or oblanceolate, 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 cm, base cuneate, (not clasping), margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous or, rarely, finely glandular-puberulent. Inflorescences panicles, 3–5-branched; immature inflorescence ascendent, branches wide-spreading, often ascending to erect, axis 2–2.5 cm, to 1 mm diam., usually glabrous, sparsely hairy, or sometimes sparsely glandular-hairy; bracts tightly appressed, scalelike, ovate to deltate, 1–1.5 mm (± equaling buds), apex acuminate, surfaces usually sparsely hairy or sometimes sparsely glandular-hairy; (buds scattered along inflorescence axis, round, appearing as “beads”). Pedicels 5–10 mm, glabrous. Flowers: corolla white to pink, urceolate; ovary glabrous. Fruits subglobose, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. Stones distinct.

Distribution

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Calif.

Discussion

Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Arctostaphylos stanfordiana subsp. decumbens, Arctostaphylos stanfordiana subsp. raichei, Arctostaphylos stanfordiana subsp. stanfordiana

Key

1	Twigs, inflorescence axes, and bracts short glandular-hairy.	Arctostaphylos stanfordiana subsp. raichei
1	Twigs, inflorescence axes, and bracts glabrous or sparsely short-hairy	> 2
2	Plants erect, 1-3 m; interior n Coast Ranges	Arctostaphylos stanfordiana subsp. stanfordiana
2	Plants prostrate to decumbent, 0.1-1 m; Sonoma County.	Arctostaphylos stanfordiana subsp. decumbens