Common Manzanita leaves and berries (left); Whiteleaf Manzanita leaves and berries (right).
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A large native shrub or small tree found in the coast ranges from Oregon to the southern Bay Area, in the Central Valley north of Sacramento, and in the western Sierra Nevada foothills south to Mariposa County. There are scattered reports of A.manzanita south to Bakersfield, in the San Bernadino Mountains, and into the Cuyamaca Mountains (east of San Diego). In the spring it is covered with white flowers, and in the fall it produces clusters of shiny, large, very attractive, dark red-purple berries.
In the nursery trade, clones of this plant are often sold as "Dr. Hurd Manzanita". These can be expected to have exactly the same plant characteristics as any of their ancestors that have been propagated forth from Dr. Cuthbert Hurd's garden specimen growing in Portola Valley, CA, in 1972.
Mariposa Native Plants sells genetically variable specimens and seeds from natural occurrences of Common Manzanita, A.manzanita. These are collected from our properties in the Mariposa, Midpines, and Bootjack, CA areas.
In #1 containers and in seed packets (25).