Arctostaphylos hooveri
| Santa Lucia manzanita | |
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| Species: | A. hooveri
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| Arctostaphylos hooveri P.V. Wells
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Arctostaphylos hooveri, the Santa Lucia manzanita, is a plant species endemic to the Santa Lucia Mountains in Monterey County, California. It grows in woodlands and in chaparral scrub-land at elevations of 900–1200 m.[1]
Arctostaphylos hooveri is a shrub or tree up to 8 m tall. Leaves are egg-shaped, whitish with wax, up to 6 cm long. Flowers are white, conical to urn-shaped, in branched panicles. Fruits are spherical or nearly so, about 8 mm in diameter.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ^ a b Flora of North America v 8 p 433
- ^ Wells, Philipp Vincent. 1961. A new manzanita from the Santa Lucia Range, California. Leaflets of Western Botany 9(9–10): 152–153.
- ^ Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- ^ David J. Keil. 2011. Lectotypification of Arctostaphylos hooveri (Ericaceae). Madroño 58(4):256-257.